LUNZ Exploratory workshop: Enabling transitions to net zero in land use in Scotland – what works?

An online exploratory workshop was held with land use stakeholders in Scotland. Invitations were targeted to relevant land use stakeholders and 12 participated representing organisations working in: forestry, environment, livestock, arable, financial economics, climate research, farmland nature, farm advice, research (including land managers, rural business consultants, land use decision makers and researchers). This is one of four national workshops being facilitated by the Enabling Transitions Topic Advisory Group of the LUNZ Hub.

Workshop aims and objectives

Overall aim: to establish how the research community can support transitions to net zero in land use.

The objectives:

• To agree a framework of key enabling conditions 
• To harvest success stories and identify common factors/levers/principles
• To identify gaps in the evidence and priorities for research

After a presentation of the current understanding of enabling transitions, responses to the two online questions participants were asked when they registered were presented. Following this an interactive session identified and discussed successful and non-successful on the ground interventions.

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