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Woodland Creation in the Lake District

Cumbria, England

Woodland Creation in the Lake District

Woodland Creation in the Lake District | Cumbria, England
Woodland Creation in the Lake District | Cumbria, England
Woodland Creation in the Lake District | Cumbria, England
Woodland Creation in the Lake District | Cumbria, England
Woodland Creation in the Lake District | Cumbria, England
Woodland Creation in the Lake District | Cumbria, England
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Number of Goals this project addresses

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
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This mixed species woodland will sequester carbon and link existing forest blocks to benefit local wildlife.

Project highlights

  • This extensive project on Lowther Estate will create a new (predominantly coniferous) mixed woodland, which will help local wildlife by linking existing blocks of estate forestry, creating a woodland corridor that joins the southern part of the property with important pasture woodlands. The project is expected to sequester 41,664 tonnes of carbon over the 100-year project period.
  • Over 61 hectares of woodland will be created, with 122,383 trees being planted. The tree species are: Sitka Spruce, Douglas Fir, Scots Pine, Oak, Birch, Rowan,Lime, Hazel, Hawthorn, Apple, Aspen, Alder and Cherry.
  • In addition to sequestering carbon, the project will deliver flood mitigation benefits to the wider catchment (including downstream Carlisle). This project is one of 15 grouped projects that, in total, create over 892.85 hectares of British woodland, resulting in over 267,028 tonnes of carbon being sequestered.

About

Under the Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) a carbon credit is represented in two parts; a Woodland Carbon Unit (WCU) and a Pending Issuance Unit (PIU). A WCU represents a tonne of CO₂e that has been sequestered in a WCC-verified woodland. A PIU is the ‘promise to deliver’ a WCU in the future, issued in full at project implementation to fund the project and land costs. PIUs convert to WCUs as the trees mature and sequester carbon.

This project is a PIU, meaning that planting is new and ongoing. Only when this woodland matures will a WCU be issued and subsequently retired. Because this PIU does not represent an offset happening right now, this project has been further backed by an international Gold Standard Certified Emissions Reduction carbon credit, representing current and actual carbon reductions or avoidance. This means that you can confidently say you have offset your carbon emissions while also supporting the creation of woodlands in the UK for future carbon sequestration.

For every tonne of woodland PIU purchased, CarbonClick has subsequently purchased and retired the equivalent amount of credits from a wind farm in India. You can find the details of the project here, and the corresponding retirement certificate here. All WCU’s delivered in the future will also be retired, so we have the upmost confidence in our credits being impactful, additional and helping create forests that we, and our future generations, will enjoy.

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