We have a commitment to reducing carbon emissions, seeking opportunities for increased carbon storage and adopting climate change adaptation measures.

We would like to see initiatives reducing carbon emissions and increasing Nidderdale National Landscape’s capacity for carbon storage through activities such as restoring precious peat habitats and significantly increasing the amount of woodland cover. We actively support the installation of renewable energy infrastructure where this does not result in harm to landscape.

Climate change adaptation measures will include implementing a targeted habitat expansion linkage and creation programme, tackling invasive non-native species and natural flood management, for example.

Our work focuses on

• Providing farm and land management advice to support the work of moorland land managers.
• Increasing woodland cover and trees outside woods through our tree and woodland work.
• Emissions reduction is a key part of our catchment sensitive farming advice.
• We work in partnership encourage Natural Flood Management through landscape scale projects such as Skell Valley Project, OUSEWEM and Beyond Nature.