Green Finance Initiative
The Flow Country is home to the largest blanket peat bog in Europe. It’s an important wildlife habitat and stores 400 million tonnes of carbon – more than double the amount in all of Britain’s woodlands. This makes it vital for both biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. The remarkable ability of these peatlands to store carbon is only possible if the bogs are kept in healthy condition. Sadly, huge areas are degraded and actually contributing to climate change, rather than reversing it.
Restoring our peatlands is one of the most important things we can do to fight climate change. But it’s not always easy to set up projects to do this, especially not at scale.
The Flow Country Green Finance Initiative is a locally-led initiative to raise money to restore peatlands at scale, blending public and private finance. It aims to support community development goals, create high quality jobs, carbon investments, ecosystem services, and support circular business models.
The Flow Country Green Finance Initiative will help achieve our twin climate goals of reducing emissions and sequestering carbon. This is a vital part of Scotland’s Net Zero ambitions, and we’re proud to be leading the way.
The Flow Country Partnership’s profits – accrued from investments, ecosystem services and carbon credits – will be reinvested into community projects.
