The National Trust, the RSPB, the Woodland Trust, to name but a few have signed up to a climate friendly pledge to cut carbon following COP26 in Glasgow a few weeks ago. Great news! They’ll do this by boosting peat bogs, woodland and rivers, cutting emissions, restoring wildlife habitats, and using renewable energy. So that’s more than 10 million acres of countryside in England becoming more climate friendly, but what can you do if your landholding isn’t quite on that sort of scale?
There are some very simple steps that can be taken to encourage wildlife such as planting wildflower margins to fields and encouraging pollinating insects to visit, maybe with some bug hotels or even a few bee hives. Cropping strategies and agricultural practices can be environmentally friendly as well as profitable, with regenerative agriculture gaining in popularity.
And of course there are ELMS (Environmental Land Management Schemes) being introduced by the government in the next few years. The first of these, the Sustainable Farming Incentive Scheme, will see landowners being paid to manage their land in a sustainable way, improving biodiversity and creating cleaner air and water. The remaining two schemes, Local Nature Recovery and Landscape Recovery, are likely to require collaboration by landowners which is something that is already happening in some parts of England to create environmental farming groups.
Perhaps you don’t own one third of England, but working with others to collaborate on tackling climate change could make the process that little bit easier.
Landowners who own a third of England make ‘climate-friendly’ carbon pledge
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/landowners-who-own-a-third-of-england-make-e2-80-98climate-friendly-e2-80-99-carbon-pledge/ar-AARetqx?ocid=uxbndlbing
