Yesterday (2 February), the Scottish Parliament accepted a proposal from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC), with the motion coming from Maurice Golden MSP, minister for North East Scotland.
Its Nature Positive Plan, Planning For Nature aims to help retailers “accelerate nature-positive action and halt and reverse biodiversity loss across their value chains,” the SRC said.
This follows the 2024 Plan for Nature and the 2025 Planning for Nature Progress Report, which sought to stimulate industry-wide action on nature and biodiversity loss and measure progress, including through “standardised metrics and improved supplier engagement.”
The Scottish Government said it recognises the important role retail can play in addressing nature loss alongside climate change, while continuing to meet existing sustainability commitments.
It added that it welcomes the practical roadmap and ongoing support and advice for shopkeepers the plan provides to accelerate nature-positive action, including benchmarks to support transparency and progress across the sector and alignment with existing environmental strategies and sustainability reporting requirements.
The ultimate aim is to improve retailers’ “longer-term commercial resilience and success, and encourages policymakers and stakeholders to work collaboratively with the retail industry to support the delivery of a nature-positive economy, which it considers can benefit communities, supply chains and the natural environment.”
A motion in parliament is a formal proposal put forward by a member (MP or Peer) for the House to debate, vote on, or take action upon. It serves as the basis for decision-making, allowing the legislature to express opinions, order actions or initiate debates.
If then passed, a substantive motion becomes a resolution of the House.
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