Planting new woodlands under the UK's Woodland Carbon Code ...

Forest Carbon organises carbon woodland projects for people wanting to give something back to the environment. Our voluntary schemes are already removing over 500,000 tonnes of CO2 from the air, locking it into the leaves, wood and roots of British trees. Forests literally hold our world together so creating carbon woodlands to compensate for your unavoidable emissions is good - not just for things that breathe the air, or for future generations - but for business too.

The quality of such schemes can now be tested by the UK's new Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) , administered by the Forestry Commission.  In assuring potential tree-planting sponsors that their schemes meet best standards for biodiversity, ecological impact, 'additionality' and carbon capture measurement, the Code is expected to stimulate much-needed woodland creation across the UK.  

Forest Carbon is the first company to secure certification for a woodland creation project under the new WCC but we have, in fact, been applying the specific standards of the Code to all of our schemes since our founding, five years ago. Our own 'Forest Carbon Standard' which we had created in the absence of an official code, now gives way to the WCC.

The Forestry Commission believes that to voluntarily reduce your carbon footprint through woodland creation is a 'win, win, win situation for smart organisations'. One of our clients - The Green Insurance Company - proves this point:  Having just recently planted its millionth tree the company is already halfway to their second million, driven by demand from their green-minded customers. Everyone loves a tree, and if you are thinking of capturing your unavoidable emissions this way, or if you own land that would benefit from new woodland, you should talk to us.

 

minsca landscape How we work From beginning to end we take care of the whole process for both landowners and organisations wanting to capture their carbon...
tgic - kidburngill - 2010 Sample projects Our clients plant new woodlands in the name of bus journeys, home deliveries, fuel sales, vehicle insurance, office operations, retail sales, print orders and much more...
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Forest Carbon Projects

Click on the map (left) for descriptions and details for each of the 40-plus woodland schemes created for our partners Marks & Spencer, The Green Insurance Company, Hallmark Cards, Mears Group, Stagecoach, KwikFit, BWOC and others. (Not all the projects appear here - we're still in the process of uploading them.)

TGIC and Forest Carbon gain the UK's first Woodland Carbon Code validation

This 43 acre native woodland,  sponsored by The Green Insurance Company,  played host on 22nd November to the Scottish Minister for the Environment & Climate Change, the Forestry Commission, Forest Carbon and the farmer on whose land the trees now thrive. We met to celebrate being the first company to attain Woodland Carbon Code validation for a client’s woodland scheme in the UK.
 
Stewart Stevenson MSP welcomed the new Code saying it offered ‘a means of verifying the results against the claims made’ in respect of carbon benefits and that he expects it to 'encourage investment and deliver climate change mitigation'.  Planted at Milton of Mathers near Montrose, this TGIC project is protected by 70 year contract, over which period it will remove 4,771 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the amosphere. 

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BWOC: More business equals more trees BWOC’s plan to create woodlands to capture their own operational emissions and 10% of the driving emissions of their fuel card customers was launched in a spirit of corporate responsibility - but there’s been a business bonus too: several recent business contracts the company has won are, they believe, directly related to their voluntary ‘green’ action. More work translates into a need for more trees - and BWOC are already responsible for the planting of over 40,000 trees which will capture over 8,000 tonnes of CO2 over their lifetime - and there are more projects in the pipeline. Read more...
A Million Trees: TGIC gets The Gold Award for Woodland Creation

The Green Insurance Company recently celebrated the planting of their millionth tree for which they were awarded the Forest Carbon Gold Award for Woodland Creation. This young Scottish insurance company has been responsible for 3.5% of all national woodland creation over the last 4 years as a result of which 300,000 tonnes of CO2 will be be captured - a huge contribution to our environment.

All TGIC’s vehicle policies come loaded with full capture of the customer’s annual vehicle emissions. The popularity of this sort of green policy means that by this time next year TGIC could be heading into their third million!

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Protecting British water - with trees...

The Environment Agency's recent report, Woodland for Water, confirms that woodland creation is an ideal way to achieve better water management and water quality objectives in the UK.

The report concludes that the right species in the right location will make significant improvements to environmental problems like flooding, pollution, river degradation, climate change, nasty smells from farms and the other eco-system woes we face.

Ranging across our whole environment (e.g. pig farms, rivers, towns, etc.) the report offers facts and figures on the levels of mitigation trees can offer in ways that are remedial or protective. The project was undertaken by Forest Research and ADAS, funded by Forestry Commission and the Environment Agency. If you'd like to read it yourself...

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