The Wildlife Trusts have negotiated a £40 million fund from Aviva to allow them to offset their carbon on a project that will take hundreds of years to create new Atlantic Rain forest across 1500 hectares of the UK
The rewilders like carbon offsetting rather than regenerative agriculture, sadly
https://www.aviva.com/newsroom/news-releases/2023/02/aviva-helps-restore-rare-native-british-rainforests/
- Aviva will help restore Britain’s lost rainforests, as part of a £100 million programme of nature-based projects in UK and Ireland to help address climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
- Aviva will partner with The Wildlife Trusts to re-establish the UK’s rare and biodiverse temperate rainforest
- The project is expected to remove approximately 800,000 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere – equivalent to the emissions created by one person taking over 740,000 transatlantic flights*
Aviva announces a £38 million donation to restore Britain’s lost temperate rainforests in the UK. Aviva believes this is one of the most effective nature based interventions to help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The restored rainforests will also provide a positive contribution to the nature and biodiversity crisis, as well as supporting flood protection and resilience. The donation is part of Aviva’s Net Zero 2040 ambition.
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/about-us/where-we-work/scotland/saving-scotlands-rainforest/
