Some of Britain’s best farmland is also its most carbon-emitting
Forget rewilding. To reduce agriculture’s carbon footprint, rewetting may be needed
James brown thought he was running a climate-friendly farm, growing organic veg and powering his property with a wind turbine and solar panels. That was until scientists at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, a research institute, found that he was emitting about 25 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent per hectare each year, in the form of CO2 itself and other greenhouse gases, like nitrous oxide.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “For peat’s sake”
Britain November 12th 2022
- The real reason it takes so long to build infrastructure in Britain
- The OBR will be the arbiter of Britain’s autumn budget
- Remembering Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman of The Economist for 17 years
- Some of Britain’s best farmland is also its most carbon-emitting
- Britain’s electoral boundaries are being redrawn
- Why is everyone so cross about the National Trust?
- The night-watchman welfare state
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