A new class of landlords in Scotland is cultivating forests of native trees and monoculture conifer plantations with an eye toward offsetting their emissions and selling carbon credits to others. (Emily Macinnes for The Washington Post) New investors in “rewilding” want to plant forests, save butterflies and make money.
Unlike the barons of yore, modern buyers are drawn not by the allure of game or whisky, but by the promise of carbon credits and the lucrative potential of “natural capital. ” With governments actively promoting investments in forestation and peatland restoration,
For example, in recent years a range of pressure groups such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have organised protests in Scotland against the use of fracking as a way of getting gas from ...
ENGINEERING firm Wood has signed a two-year extension to its contract with Shell for work on the oil giant’s newest floating vessel in the North Sea.
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