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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
Green shoots: Defra touts £12m to help plant 500 hectares of trees
Over next five months more than 500 hectares of trees are to be planted in 10 community forests across England, the government has announced
Turn the ignition on nature based solutions, report urges businesses
From street trees to green walls, nature-based approaches are shown to deliver significant environmental and economic benefits for developers and communities
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
'Unintended consequences': Road to net-zero must harmonise different climate priorities, warns Nature Capital Committee
New report from independent advisory committee warns the government must approach net zero carbon target carefully, with joined-up policy interventions that do not inadvertently lead to higher emissions
New rewilding charity to tap crowdfunding to purchase and restore depleted land
New charity Heal plans to raise £7m to buy and rewild 500-acres (200ha) of land in southern England within two years, before replicating the project further afield.
'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
National Trust promises to go net zero by 2030
"We need to step forward and leave our own legacy" says director general Hilary McGrady on charity's 125th anniversary
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
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
Government eyes HS2 'Green Corridor' as it pledges £2m woodlands boost
Additional High Speed Rail funding will go towards HS2 Woodland Fund to plant new native trees along route between Birmingham and Crewe
Tory MPs and green groups urge government to retain ambitious tree planting goals
Campaign led by Conservative think tank Bright Blue claims government is far off meeting its 2015 target of planting 11 million trees by 2020
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