How we plan our work
The diverse range of work that NatureScot carries out to care for and promote our natural capital requires careful planning.
We plan our projects and spending in detail to ensure that we achieve our priority outcomes within our set timescales and budget. We also need to look ahead to new challenges and opportunities. We do this through:
- A nature-rich future for all – our corporate plan for 2022/26
- Plana corporra 2022/26 - Nàdar beairteach dhuinn uile
- Business Plan for 2025/26
- Nature-based jobs and skills Action Plan 2023/24
Read more on these below
A nature-rich future for all
We all face a biodiversity and climate emergency. Everyone’s future depends on us tackling both. Big problems require bold action so that we protect and restore biodiversity in Scotland, and inspire everyone to value our natural world.
NatureScot has set out its priorities to help turn around the nature crisis and achieve net-zero carbon emissions in Scotland in a Corporate Plan for 2022 to 2026. The national objectives are clear. The decline in Scotland's biodiversity needs to be reversed by 2030 at the latest. This is an essential point along the way to regenerating and ultimately restoring abundance and variety in our natural world by 2045.
This is a national endeavour. No single organisation can do this on its own. So, we want to work with partners across Scotland’s public sector, and with communities, businesses, and the environment sector towards a nature-rich future for all.
Read more on the Corporate plan for 2022/26
Business Plan
This is the fourth annual business plan in support of A nature-rich future for all.
Our Business Plan centres on the people of Scotland. There is no pathway to Net Zero without nature, and critically no nature restoration without the people of Scotland.
NatureScot works with landowners and managers, farmers and crofters, foresters and the fishing industry, the renewable sector and small businesses, environmental charities and community groups, local government, national government, academics and tech innovators to make Scotland a trailblazer in nature recovery. These people are nature’s heroes. In this short video you can meet some of them.
Read more on the Business Plan for 2025/26
Equalities Impact Assessment
We produced an Equalities Impact Assessment, noting the importance of this EqIA in how we do the work to deliver Connecting People and Nature and our annual business plan.
People Strategy 2022 - 2026
Our People Strategy and Programme sets out how we will adapt to ensure that we have the Right People, with the Right skills, and Right Culture in the Right Place at the Right Time to deliver.
Our mission is to:
- Deliver an impactful, product led, user-centric People and Organisational Development service which supports NatureScot to transform and tackle the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.
- To become an ‘Employer of Choice’, as set out in our NatureScot Way.
Find out more
NatureScot Framework Document
Sets out our relationship to the Scottish Government.
Our Risk Management Policy
Provides details on the process we follow and the roles and responsibilities in risk management.
A plan for the zonation of our publicly accessible lands
How we will fulfil our Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse (COPLAR) duty to keep them in a litter-free condition
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