Question reference: S6W-01610
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 20 July 2021
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Current status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 12 August 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its assessment is of the relevance of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta’s recommendations for Scotland in The Economics of Biodiversity, and whether it will publish any assessment it has made.
Answer
The Scottish Government welcomes the key messages of the Dasgupta Review, which is highly relevant and demonstrates the central importance of biodiversity and environmental sustainability to economic policy. There are no plans to publish an assessment of the Review.
Our National Strategy for Economic Transformation will be published later this year and will focus on building an economy that will maximise Scotland’s economic, social and environmental wellbeing whilst delivering green economic recovery and green jobs, and building businesses and industries of the future. In 2022 we will publish our new post-2020 biodiversity strategy which will outline wider measures being taken to enhance Scotland’s biodiversity and natural environment.