Net Zero Plus - Creating the UK's, New Woodlands
June 21, 2022 / 9:00 AM EDT
GLASSNET Use Case Summer Workshop
The Net Zero Plus project combines natural and social science to demonstrate how to design afforestation in the UK to store carbon, deliver co-benefits for biodiversity, water environments and recreation. The project is unusual in having an extremely close association with those senior policy makers in the UK Government charged with the massive expansion in forestry needed to deliver the greenhouse gas removal element of the Governments commitment to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The innovative NZ+ Decision Support Tool being developed by the project will be used by the UK Government to guide that expansion of woodland while also helping landowners, farmers and other decision makers, with advice on the most effective places to create new woodlands (and manage existing woodlands).