Extract from Lords debate on the Queen's Speech - Jan 7
Wednesday, 8 January 2020 09:37
Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab):...As chairman of
the Woodland Trust I could not not talk about trees. I
very much welcome the commitment of the noble Lord, Lord Patten, in
that respect, as well as his identification that during the
election campaign it was gratifying to see a kind of arms war in
tree planting, and the weaponisation of tree planting as a
political tool. I also welcome the Government’s commitment to
planting an additional 75,000 acres of woodland a year for...Request free trial
(Lab):...As
chairman of the Woodland Trust I could not not talk about
trees. I very much welcome the commitment of the noble Lord,
, in that respect, as well as
his identification that during the election campaign it was
gratifying to see a kind of arms war in tree planting, and the
weaponisation of tree planting as a political tool. I also welcome
the Government’s commitment to planting an additional 75,000 acres
of woodland a year for biodiversity and to tackle climate change,
and for all the other benefits that trees and woods deliver. But it
is a big challenge when we consider that the previous commitment
was to plant 11 million trees over a five-year period. We now need
to plant more than 50 million trees per annum, which is a massive
uplift...
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