Our key mission is to advance our efforts towards our ultimate goal to halt and reverse nature loss.

We have made major strides in reducing our direct impacts on nature loss by targeting Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) on increasing numbers of our developments. We have tied achieving our BNG targets to Executive remuneration, ensuring it is front and centre in our corporate actions, and will analyse our full nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities. We continue to support the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan with our Pollinator Friendly planting and landscape works across all of our developments and have been acknowledged by the National Biodiversity Data a Pollinator Friendly business since 2018 and our pollinator plan activities are mapped on the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan website.

We have also continued to be supporters of Birdwatch Ireland, an independent conservation organisation, and have collaborated with them on implementing a significant nesting box project as part of our Linden Demesne development.

In 2023, Cairn continued to ramp up our efforts to improve the biodiversity of the wider environment in parallel with our Biodiversity Net Gain strategy for our own sites by planting thousand of trees across the country. In choosing native species, we are creating future homes for local wildlife as well as mitigating climate change.

To further this initiative and augment the treeplanting we have carried out on our own sites (18,000+ in 2023, 52,000+ to date), we partnered with Reforest Nation to sponsor a further 3,000 trees at the beginning of 2023. Cairn employees joined a host of volunteers over a weekend in late February to lend a hand tree-planting and come together to make a positive impact on our environment, helping the local ecosystem and supporting biodiversity. This was the second such event held with Reforest Nation.