We’re on a mission to plant UK forests and fight Climate change. #Time4Trees

#Time4Trees gives everyone
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Time4Trees is a new company established by land restoration specialists Land Logical and M&M Environmental. Land Logical’s core business is restoring damaged land, such as landfills and other sites that need remediation or decontamination before they can sustain any productive use. This can typically involve substantial engineering operations involving the importation of inert materials to improve ground conditions – and planting lots of trees! And as a bi-product on some sites diversification into ‘green energy’ production through, for example turning methane from landfill into electricity.

M&M Environmental brings to bear years of experience in the project management of landscape creation and remediation projects. Another essential part of the Time4Trees ‘team’ is our relationships with reputable tree suppliers – such as Ruskins and Cheviot Trees – for a guaranteed supply of quality tree stock.It has become an accepted fact that native tree-planting on an unprecedented scale needs to be central to our response to mitigating the impacts of Climate Change. In the UK there is now a political consensus that this action is crucial, especially as the commitment has been given to having a net-zero carbon economy by 2050 at the latest.

The aspiration to plant trees in increasingly large numbers for the purpose of ‘carbon capture’ is not a new aspiration; the Government’s own ‘Committee on Climate Change’ has assessed that 1.5 billion needs to be the target figure to achieve the now legally binding national objective. This will require planting over 30,000 hectares of trees every year for the next three decades.

Yet the harsh reality of the statistics for recent years highlights how difficult this is going to be to achieve.

In the year to March 2019 alone, a mere 1,420 hectares (3,507 acres) of trees were planted in England, against a target of 5,000 hectares a 71% shortfall in UK planted area targets.

Why is this happening? The reasons are many and varied, but inevitably include the scarcity of readily available and long-term money for investment at rates that genuinely incentivise this land use against alternatives.

The newest schemes, including the Forestry Commission ‘Woodland Carbon Guarantee’ now coming online, are an attempt to break through the barriers to achieving a step by step change in progress.

However, no single publically funded initiative is going to succeed on its own. Harnessing the strengths and passions of private sector initiatives and the community-at-large is also needed, that’s where Time4Trees comes in.