unlocking-better-future-framework-just-transition-scotland-c23b8bfa96f93985.pdf

This briefing describes the application of the Unlocking a Better Future (UBF) framework to develop a systemic roadmap for a just transition in Scotland. Commissioned by the Scottish Government to inform its new environment strategy, the project identifies necessary societal and economic shiftsC shifts to achieve a "net-zero, nature-positive" future through a methodology that maps existing policies against three transformative shifts: redefining the human-nature relationship, ensuring lasting prosperity for all, and investing in a sustainable future.

• The Unlocking a Better Future (UBF) framework was used to create a systemic roadmap for Scotland's transformation, focusing on three core transformative shifts: redefining the relationship with nature, ensuring lasting prosperity for all, and investing in aS a sustainable future.
• The research identified specific policy gaps in Scotland regarding nature-based education and the legal recognition of nature, leading to recommendations to integrate nature-based education across all levels of the curriculum and to explore the 'Rights ofS of Nature' concept to recognize nature as a rights-bearing entity.
• To align economic decision-making with wellbeing and environmental outcomes, the research recommends using wider measures of wellbeing within Scotland's Wellbeing Monitor and embedding a sustainability filter into procurement and innovation policies.
• The methodology emphasized the need for institutionalized, long-term public engagement rather than ad hoc consultations to increase legitimacy and trust in the transition process.
• The project suggests that tracking transformation requires moving beyond traditional indicators to include those that reflect shifts in societal values and structural change, suchS such as data from the World Values Survey regarding the belief that there should be less emphasis on money and material possessions.

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Stockholm Environment Institute (n.d.). unlocking-better-future-framework-just-transition-scotland-c23b8bfa96f93985.pdf. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/195821/unlocking-better-future-framework-just-transition-scotland.pdf

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@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitutendunlockingbetterfutureframeworkjusttransitionscotlandc23b8bfa96f93985pdf, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{unlocking-better-future-framework-just-transition-scotland-c23b8bfa96f93985.pdf}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/195821/unlocking-better-future-framework-just-transition-scotland.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }