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'Planting trees is highly complex': Experts draw up 'golden rules' for reforestation projects
Reforestation can capture CO2, boost biodiversity, and is a key component of many firms' net zero strategies, but handled incorrectly it can also have disastrous environmental impacts, scientists warn
Government urged to make UK tree planting target legally-binding
Enshrining goal to plant 30,000 trees each year by 2025 in law could help catalyse wider action on woodland, petition argues
'The UK desperately needs more trees': Woodland Trust aims to plant 50 million by 2025
Charity also piloting £1m 'emergency tree fund' to help councils increase woodland cover, arguing more trees are crucial to UK's 2050 net zero target
Amid devastating forest fires, One Trillion Trees movement puts down US roots
Some of America's largest corporates are backing the launch of an ambitious new reforestation programme
Woodland carbon guarantee: Latest £10m tree planting auction set for autumn
Third auction round from government's market-based scheme confirmed in bid to spur tree planting and combat CO2
Report: England's largest landowners must ramp up tree planting efforts
The Church Commissioners of England and Duchy of Cornwall - two of the largest institutional landowners in England - have tree cover rates below the already 'weak' national average of 10 per cent, according to a new study from Friends of the Earth
Vodafone teams up with Defra for digital tree monitoring trial
Telecoms giant to provide Internet of Things sensors to aid research into tree growth and their potential for carbon for CO2 storage
'Rigorous and accountable': IUCN launches global standards for nature-based climate projects
International Union for the Conservation of Nature launches guidelines to help businesses and governments design effective tree planting and nature restoration projects that align with climate targets
Branching out: Defra seeks input on how to boost England tree cover
Updated England Tree Strategy slated for later this year as government faces uphill struggle to meet its 2025 tree planting targets
Arsenal's afforestation: Hector Bellerin vows to plant 3,000 trees for each Premier League victory
Footballer urges fans to back One Tree Planted campaign to help expand global forests
Carbon market boost: Government launches latest £10m tree-planting auction
Forestry Commission invites farmers and land manages to bid for funding support to create new woodlands to help tackle the effects of climate change
'Trees are vital': Government dishes out first wave of Urban Tree Challenge funding
Thirteen projects set to deliver tens of thousands of new trees by 2021 as government looks to deliver on manifesto tree-planting pledges
Trump hits out at 'prophets of doom' as US joins global tree conservation drive
President announces US will join Trillion Trees initiative to grow, save, and better protect one trillion trees around the world by 2050
Going with the flow: Water industry promises net zero action plan
March 2020 will see the release of a 'comprehensive action plan' to put the water industry on track for net zero emissions by 2030
Labour pledges to create ten new "national nature parks" across England
Labour plans to shake up England's system of protected land designations in new plans for nature
We need to be realistic about the benefits of planting trees
Tree planting is great for the local environment, but the climate benefits are small, writes Ed Birkett
Money trees: Government unveils £50m market-based tree-planting scheme
Woodland Carbon Guarantee to provide farmers and landowners with long-term contracts to fund CO2-sequestering tree planting
Global briefing: Could China's emissions peak by 2022?
China 2022 CO2 peak, Germany coal phase-out plans, and US Democrats debate climate action - a need-to-know round-up of this week's global green business news
Water companies promise to plant 11 million trees by 2030
Pledge will help water suppliers towards meeting their goal of operating a carbon neutral industry in 11 years' time
Rory Stewart: I will double UK foreign aid spent on climate change
Tory leadership hopeful wants to put climate change at the centre of DfID's work, and says the UK should massively expand its tree planting programme
Global briefing: New York Yankees come out to bat for climate change
All the need-to-know green business news from around the world this week
Pitch perfect: Arsenal FC and Octopus Energy help plant 2,500 trees
Gunners' players Hector Bellerin, Petr Cech, and Aaron Ramsey team up with club's renewable energy partner Octopus Energy to launch new training ground wood
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