Climate Home: British scientists have worked out how to turn agricultural land which currently produces 10% of the nations greenhouse gas emissions into a carbon sink that soaks up carbon dioxide.
The answer is simple: take more land out of food production, restore natural habitats, and allow forests to grow again.
If, in the next 35 years, the UK increased forest cover from 12% to 30%, and surrendered 700,000 hectares to revert to peat bog, that would be enough to meet government ambitions to reduce...