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Sustainability

Decarbonising our business

As a national landowner, The Crown Estate is committed to reducing the climate impact of our portfolio. We’re taking action to decarbonise our operations and supply chain, guided by a science led approach and associated sector-specific plans.

Our strategy spans real estate, land and marine environments, and includes investment in infrastructure, supply chains and data capabilities. We’re also piloting innovative solutions to strengthen climate resilience.

Delivering meaningful change requires collaboration. We’re working with communities, customers, tenants, businesses and policymakers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to support a national transition to net zero.

This expanded approach builds on progress already made across rural, urban and marine sectors. It reflects our ambition to accelerate action, raise accountability and contribute to a low-carbon, energy-secure future.

In October 2025, we published an update outlining our expanded scope, sector-specific decarbonisation plans and recent progress.

Read the update to understand more about our work to advance a low-carbon, energy secure transition

Shared action for a low-carbon future

We’re taking clear, dedicated steps to accelerate collective action and amplify our impact through ongoing emissions reductions. At the same time, we’re collaborating on projects designed to build climate resilience for the nation.

Take a look at just some of the actions we’ve taken and the partnerships we’ve engaged in throughout 2024 and 2025 to drive decarbonisation across our portfolio.

Learn about the projects shown on the map:

  • We provided funding to Plaswire, a Northern Irish recycling specialist that transforms wind turbine blades and industrial waste into construction materials, through the Supply Chain Accelerator.

  • We doubled The Crown Estate Rural Environmental Fund to £20 million to support tenant farmers in protecting nature and using nature-based carbon sequestration.

  • We announced a £400 million investment in the UK’s offshore wind supply chain, including the Supply Chain Accelerator, which has already awarded nearly £5 million to 13 organisations.

  • We invested £7.3 million in projects through the Offshore Wind Evidence and Change programme to accelerate and de-risk clean offshore technology delivery.

  • We're piloting an innovation hub to support cleantech growth, part of a £1.5 billion masterplan to enable scalable innovation and act as a gateway to the Northeast Cambridge Innovation District.

  • We're partnering with Equinor and Gwynt Glas to deliver first-of-a-kind, commercial-scale floating offshore wind farms in Wales and southwest England.

A joined-up approach to environmental impact

As well as decarbonising our business, we are committed to supporting the nation’s net zero transition. Using our long-standing presence in UK offshore wind, we’re helping further expand the sector while advancing development of technologies that capture and store carbon. We’re also committed to supporting nature recovery, recognising the connections that exist between climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Our sustainability stories

Putting net zero, nature and communities at the heart of our activities.