Carbon Trading

Food production may be the most significant use of rural land in this country, but there are many others that provide benefits, notably nature conservation, public access and mitigation of climate change.  As the environment sits at the top of many political agendas, so these other land uses are promoted.  The UK’s secession from the European Union and thus the Common Agricultural Policy means that we are developing our own agricultural and environmental policies.  Direct subsidies to farmers are being phased out to be replaced by public money for public goods.  But funding is increasingly coming from the private sector too.

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