Net Zero Route Map 2025 - 2030

This strategy will cover all initiatives and reporting related to our operational emissions.

It will not cover any forestry sector emissions, or those of our wider influence (e.g. the Forestry Grant Scheme, Timber Transport Scheme or the Woodland Carbon Code).

Nor will it cover activities stemming from our duties to the Scottish National Adaptation Program (SNAP3).

A full list of our reporting boundaries, can be found in Appendix C.

Appendix C

We will measure and report our progress via the annual Public Bodies Climate Change Duties report.

With every iteration of that report, we endeavour to improve the quality of our data and reporting scope.

In order to fulfil our statutory duties on behalf of Ministers and the Scottish public, some activities will remain inevitable, including:

• transportation to and from woodlands
• corporate travel
• electricity use
• other carbon-producing activities

So, whilst we endeavour, and are legally required to, reduce our operational emissions as far as reasonably possible, some offsetting activities are required to get us to Net Zero in the future.