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A number of bodies are represented in that group, including Highlands and Island Enterprise, the Federation of Small Businesses, the Scottish Islands Federation and the CalMac community board.
However, as recently as 2003, 351,800ha – nearly four times as much – of Scottish 2 farmland was organic . The current ambition of Scottish Government is to double organic 3 land by 2026 , which would take us to approximately 180,000ha.
Date: 22/12/2023 SCOTLAND’S STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR BIODIVERSITY Ahead of next year’s Natural Environment Bill, Scottish Land and Estates were pleased to submit their contribution to the Scottish Government’s consultation on Scotland’s Strategic Framework for Biodiversity.
It might have been worthwhile for the Scottish Government to look at a direct purchasing and leasing model, which could allow for direct awards to Scottish manufacturers.
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Update to the Climate Change Plan - Background Information and Key Issues
This briefing relates to the Scottish Government's draft Update to the 2018 Climate Change Plan.
Or with the banners now folded, the flags taken down and the sounds of protest which filled the streets of Glasgow now fading, is the Scottish Government going to make the climate catastrophe not better but worse?
These issues are not new; they have been hanging around since the beginning of devolution. The former Scottish Labour-Lib Dem Executive asked the Scottish Law Commission to consider the law of the foreshore and seabed back in 1999.