“The UK’s Massive Tree-Planting Campaign Isn’t Moving Fast Enough”

One of Europe’s least-forested countries has a plan to fight climate change. That’s much easier said than done.

The UK’s Tree-Planting Campaign Is Falling Behind – Bloomberg

Compared with most of its neighbors, the UK is relatively treeless, its woodlands felled centuries ago and never replanted. Just 13% of its territory is covered by forest, compared with roughly a third or more in France, Germany and Spain. The UK has set a goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Even the most ambitious scenarios don’t call for a complete end to fossil fuel use, so meeting the target will be impossible without finding ways to capture carbon from the atmosphere.