'The right tree in the right place': Aviva stumps up £10m for Woodland Trust carbon removals

Stuart Stone
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Insurance giant estimates partnership could remove 330,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Aviva has donated £10m to a nature-based climate project led by the Woodland Trust, which it estimates could remove some 330,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the investment giant announced...

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