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'Planting trees is highly complex': Experts draw up 'golden rules' for reforestation projects
'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

  • Offsets
  • 26 January 2021
Government urged to make UK tree planting target legally-binding
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

  • Politics
  • 01 December 2020
'The UK desperately needs more trees': Woodland Trust aims to plant 50 million by 2025
'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

  • Climate change
  • 19 October 2020
Amid devastating forest fires, One Trillion Trees movement puts down US roots
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

  • Biodiversity
  • 28 August 2020
Woodland carbon guarantee: Latest £10m tree planting auction set for autumn
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

  • Policy
  • 21 August 2020
Report: England's largest landowners must ramp up tree planting efforts
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

  • Biodiversity
  • 03 August 2020
Vodafone teams up with Defra for digital tree monitoring trial
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

  • Technology
  • 03 August 2020
'Rigorous and accountable': IUCN launches global standards for nature-based climate projects
'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

  • Biodiversity
  • 23 July 2020
Branching out: Defra seeks input on how to boost England tree cover
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

  • Policy
  • 19 June 2020
Arsenal's afforestation: Hector Bellerin vows to plant 3,000 trees for each Premier League victory
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

  • Offsets
  • 17 June 2020
Carbon market boost: Government launches latest £10m tree-planting auction
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

  • Carbon Trading
  • 16 April 2020
'Trees are vital': Government dishes out first wave of Urban Tree Challenge funding
'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

  • Biodiversity
  • 08 February 2020
Trump hits out at 'prophets of doom' as US joins global tree conservation drive
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

  • Climate change
  • 21 January 2020
Going with the flow: Water industry promises net zero action plan
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

  • Management
  • 03 December 2019
Labour pledges to create ten new "national nature parks" across England
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

  • Policy
  • 28 November 2019
We need to be realistic about the benefits of planting trees
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

  • Science
  • 22 November 2019
Money trees: Government unveils £50m market-based tree-planting scheme
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

  • Investment
  • 06 November 2019
Global briefing: Could China's emissions peak by 2022?
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

  • Management
  • 06 September 2019
Water companies promise to plant 11 million trees by 2030
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

  • Management
  • 15 August 2019
Rory Stewart: I will double UK foreign aid spent on climate change
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

  • Policy
  • 29 May 2019
Global briefing: New York Yankees come out to bat for climate change
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

  • Management
  • 05 April 2019
Pitch perfect: Arsenal FC and Octopus Energy help plant 2,500 trees
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

  • Management
  • 24 October 2018

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