Draft Environment Strategy
The draft Environment Strategy sets out a holistic framework for delivering Scotland’s role in tackling the global crises of nature loss, climate change and pollution. It brings together our existing policy response to tackling these crises and builds on these by outlining new priorities and proposals.
4. Monitoring arrangements for the Strategy
As we work to deliver our vision and outcomes, tracking and reporting progress will be vital for informing improvements in our approach. We published an Initial Monitoring Framework in 2021, to identify the set of high-level indicators we will use to monitor progress towards each outcome. These indicators were chosen to provide a strategic and accessible overview of progress – signposting, where relevant, to more detailed indicators set out in the individual strategies and plans that sit within the Environment Strategy framework. We launched a website in 2022 to report on the status and trends of indicators and explain what this tells us about our progress towards each outcome.
The Initial Monitoring Framework highlights some areas where additional work is needed to identify robust measures of progress. We intend to review and further develop the Monitoring Framework in order to address these areas. As part of this, we will reflect updates to the Strategy’s outcomes since the initial Framework was published. We will also take account of ongoing and planned work to develop nature restoration targets and circular economy targets. We look forward to working with stakeholders and public bodies as we take this forward.