Resilient and responsive to the impacts of climate change, storing more carbon each year than it produces
2.1 Work with farmers and landowners to support food production through the use of regenerative farming practices, working with natural processes, across at least 100 farm holdings (c.15,000 hectares) by 2030.
2.2 Work with farmers and landowners to bring all remaining degraded peatland (c.28,000 hectares) into initial restoration and management by 2035.
2.3 Work with farmers and landowners to encourage creation of 6,000 hectares of native broadleaf and mixed woodland, including scrub, wood pasture and natural regeneration, by 2031, to create a network that increases resilience to climate change and reduces downstream flood peaks.
2.4 Significantly increase take up of natural flood management measures to reduce flood risks inside and outside the National Park, including ‘re-naturalising’ 25km of watercourses by 2030.
2.5 Support more services along the Settle-Carlisle Railway and the reinstatement of other rail lines, increase bus and shared transport links to surrounding towns, and improve infrastructure for electric vehicles, so as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from travel by 50% by 2030 (compared to 2019).
2.6 Support initiatives to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and increase small-scale and community renewable energy schemes, so as to reduce energy costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrial, commercial and domestic properties by 50% by 2030 (compared to 2019).