The Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) takes a very different to measuring the carbon stored in soils and the carbon stored in wood. As my first post in this series explained (see here), the WCC calculator reduces the multiple different types of soil to just two categories, mineral and organo-mineral, and almost completely disregards the evidence…
Category: Policy
The Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) describes itself (see here) as ‘the UK’s government-backed standard for creating new woodlands that generate high-integrity carbon credits’ and is managed by Scottish Forestry. The WCC is based on a number of key assumptions which are not explicitly stated: the first is that since trees take CO2 out of the…