Strand 4: Climate & Environment

Big Fat Goal

Celebrate, promote and protect our unique natural environment.

Priorities

1. Climate renewable energy; free/low-cost energy; active travel; routes and paths

2. Food futures food poverty, local produce; growing; cooking; social connection

3. Environment green-blue environments; marine protection; Biosphere

Fit With Borderlands 4 Themes

Enabling infrastructure

Improving places

Supporting business, innovation and skills

Encouraging green growth

The Rhins of Galloway is a beautiful and relatively untouched part of Scotland. With first class farming land, lush and tropical gardens and 93 miles of coast, growing, environment and climate concerns are close to locals’ hearts. It’s a sobering thought that by 2050, Tescos will be at risk of flooding. We need to reduce cars, develop renewables and take advantage of government schemes - tax relief, tax benefits, support and incentives - to drive sensible, responsible, future-focussed stewardship of our environment.

Our peninsula has recently been recognised as part of Galloway’s Dark Skies initiative. In 2022, the Rhins was invited to join Galloway and Southern Ayrshire’s Biosphere… recognised and protected by UNESCO as a world class environment for people and nature. There are opportunities to develop as a centre for learning and research for marine life. The Unexpected Garden is a successful model project we want to nurture, with a focus on growing, learning, protecting the environment and building community.

We welcome tourists. We ask them to be caretakers of our riches, as we do our citizens. It’s essential that in the process of change, we protect the natural environment and historic assets and manage clean energy capture and production with low emissions and careful waste management.

LET’S POWER THE TOWN, FOR FREE - IT’S SO DOABLE

MY PARENTS RECYCLE, I DON’T

THERE ARE WASTELANDS AT THE HEART OF THE TOWN

LET’S CELEBRATE OUR AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE

JOIN UP THE MOVING PARTS OF THE FOOD CHAIN