Green Alliance: UK must plant 70,000 hectares of trees a year to combat climate change

Think tank calls for mass woodland planting drive, a ban on peatland burning, and a focus on low carbon farming methods in new report - but is the government listening?
Planting 70,000 hectares of new woodland each year, banning peatland burning, and incentivising low carbon farming practices are among a raft of urgent, ambitious actions the UK must take to drastically...
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