Question reference: S6W-01102
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 28 June 2021
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Current status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 20 July 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to introduce legally binding targets for nature recovery.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to action to protect and restore our biodiversity and to the effective monitoring of progress towards this goal. The Scottish Government has recently added a new single high level indicator to the National Performance Framework which measures trends in marine and terrestrial biodiversity in Scotland.
We have committed to introducing an ambitious new Biodiversity Strategy for Scotland within a year of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties (CoP15) and the publication of a new global biodiversity framework. Policies to take forward our commitment to tackle the nature crisis and methods to measure progress in this regard will be considered as part of the development of this Strategy and its supporting delivery plan.