National Parks confirms Santander as a Founding Partner of ‘Net Zero With Nature’

Ahead of COP26, National Parks UK and Santander UK have unveiled a new partnership that highlights how nature restoration in National Parks can contribute towards combating climate change.

Santander is confirmed as a Founding Partner of the ‘Net Zero With Nature’ strategy, which defines the role that the National Parks can play in the UK’s fight against climate change and the biodiversity crisis. Santander will fund a new project involving the restoration of 220 hectares of damaged peatland in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. This restoration site has the potential to avoid more than 16,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions over its first 5 years and will help to establish nature-based solutions in the UK at scale.

Santander’s support is a result of the UK’s National Parks’ collaboration with Palladium, the global impact firm, which is finding new ways to leverage private finance into UK nature restoration.

In other National Parks news, Revere, a nature restoration facility with backing from major global companies, has launched out of a collaboration between Palladium and National Parks UK. Revere aims to catalyse private finance to restore the UK's National Parks at the scale and pace needed to tackle the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis. finance (target is over  to to restore the UK's National Parks at the scale and pace needed to tackle the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis.