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Large-scale tree planting 'no easy task'
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We now have yet another green battleground in this election campaign: trees.
After claim and counter claim about everything from a ban on fracking to improving flood defenses to reducing carbon emissions, there's a flurry about forests.
The Conservatives say they'll plant at least 30 million more trees every year, a pledge that is roughly in line with a recommendation from the government's official climate advisers. But that would represent a massive increase compared with earlier targets set by the government and, as the other parties are keen to point out, these have not been met.
For their part, the Liberal Democrats have gone much further than the Conservatives by promising to plant 60 million trees a year - that's double the Tory number - arguing that that's needed to help fight climate change.
The Labour Party says its plan for trees, when it comes, will be guided by the science.

Politics and the environment, if only we could all just stop for 1 day and plant the trees.


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Large-scale tree planting 'no easy task' - by Idris_A - 11-17-2019, 02:19 AM

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