Including the closely related terms management, manage, and land use.
… dioxide from the atmosphere and actively preventing climate change. One of our largest carbon stores in Wyre is from our peatlands. Peat stores twice as much carbon than all the world’s forests but is extremely slow forming9. Yet, development or land management that disturbs and drains peaty soil can release these crucially stored emissions. Enhancing our habitats through careful planting…
… within our natural landscapes, such as peatland, grasslands, saltmarsh and via our trees and hedgerows. - We benefit from our farming community, who provide local sources of food and have potential to combat climate change whilst generating profits via new government Environmental Land Management schemes. - Natural flood protection along our coastline through saltmarsh enhancement as well…
… 465.3 461.3 410.5 443.7 408.0 Lancashire Area Total 10,795.1 10,550.9 9,648.9 10,023.7 9,415.2 28 Wyre’s emissions are split across eight main sources: Figure 3: Emission sources across the borough of Wyre. *LULUCF = Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry. Our sparse geography means that a high percentage of our emissions come from both minor and A road…
… a gas grid connection, as they rely on solid fuel or oil for heat. Home to a large farming community, we generate a large proportion of agricultural emissions from local cropland and livestock. Most conventional farming practices release greenhouse gases from the use of chemical fertilisers and as a byproduct from cows and sheep. Land use changes (LULUCF emissions) from historic…