The Scottish Government has announced that it is investigating the development of an Ecosystem Restoration Code to ensure the high-integrity governance, measurement, reporting, and verification required to help channel responsible private investment into projects that enhance the structure, function, and resilience of ecosystems. By 2026 the Scottish Government aims to have fully tested options for this code, including its objectives, ownership and governance structure, approach to monitoring, reporting and verification, and the process for nature credit issuance. The work will be informed by the outputs of the recently completed CivTech contract with CreditNature.