Could this be the future of peatland management, agriculture and conservation? Produced in collaboration with numerous NGOs, The Carbon Farmer presents a possible future of best-case practice on the UK's peatlands that provide a plethora of benefits - from carbon sequestration to farming, flood risk management, biodiversity and more.
The UK's degraded peatlands are currently a source of aroudn 20 million tonnes of greenhouse gasses every year - enough to completely undermine all national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all other sources. That has to change, we have to restore and protect our degraded peatlands, and The Carbon Farmer presents an aspirational idea of how that could be done.
Released publicly on December 4th 2018, The Carbon Farmer has already been used by DEFRA (Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) to contextualise plans for agricultural development, and been shared peer-to-peer by internationally renowned researchers at the COP24 conference on climate change.