Peatlands

We’re proud to have launched a Peatland restoration programme, investing up to £5 million over five years to protect and restore Scotland’s vital peatlands.

Together with Caledonian Climate and Wetlands International, this programme will help to restore up to 3,000 hectares of degraded peatland by 2030. We will identify and co-fund projects that help to restore depleted peatlands, increase carbon storage, enhance biodiversity and improve water management in some of the country’s most iconic and fragile landscapes.

Alongside our science-based restoration approach, we are also working in partnership with landowners, government bodies, conservation groups and research institutions. Together we will measure the impacts of our work on carbon, water and biodiversity, helping to advance scientific understanding of the environmental benefits of peatlands and sharing what we learn to define best practice for the industry.

Our collaborative model maximises the £5 million investment to leverage additional funding sources and ensure restoration activities contribute to wider landscape-scale ambitions across Scotland.

This programme represents more than environmental investment, we aim for it to be  a blueprint for collective action that protects the natural resources our industry depends upon whilst creating lasting benefits for climate, water, biodiversity and communities.

The programme builds on wider, long-term innovations across our business, to support an integrated approach to peat-use – including innovations in our maltings process to maximise the efficient use of peat, as well as early-stage work to explore how peat-smoke could be recirculated in the maltings or recycled from other sources. 

We’re also taking a transparent approach. We’ll be sharing our methods, results and learnings with the sector so we can address common issues, challenges and successes we find through our restoration programme.