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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #88 Engineering Trees
Description: It is tree planting season in the UK. With their amazing carbon storage ability, flood alleviation capacity and biodiversity boosting potential, trees are fast becoming a critical part of plans to reduce net carbon emissions and mitigate against global warming. But with only 13 percent tree cover the UK lags behind Europe when it comes forest density, a fact the Committee on Climate Change and The Woodland Trust want to change.
These and other organisations are calling on Government to plant over 90 million trees per year as part of plans to change land use to reduce emissions and...