Report on the feasibility study into landscape-style community land stewardship in the south Wales valleys. Skyline is a feasibility study funded by the Friends Provident Foundation. Skyline is about land, people and imagination. Imagining a different future – a future in which land is managed sustainably to meet the needs of the people who live […]
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The British Woodlands Survey 2020
The British Woodlands Survey (BWS) gathers evidence about Britain’s woodlands and those who care for them. The BWS aims to provide an evidence base on which future policies and practice can be developed. The British Woodlands Survey is coordinated by Sylva Foundation and run in partnership with a large number of organisations. Summary results are […]
How do you compare building standards and net zero operational targets?
Good Homes Alliance and Woodknowledge Wales commissioned an energy modelling report to compare different low energy building standards. The paper seeks to illustrate how the choice of a building standard affects the amount of renewable energy generation that is required to comply with a net zero operational outcome. The report does not take into account […]
Biodiversity Forestry and Wood
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State of the nation review. Performance evaluation of new homes
Woodknowledge Wales have helped fund and support a report published by researchers at Oxford Brookes University. The report has revealed for the first time a detailed national picture of the actual performance of new build homes through a detailed analysis of building performance evaluation projects. With the UK committed to achieving net zero emissions by […]
Responding to the climate emergency with new trees and woodlands
A guide to help local authorities and landowning businesses achieve net zero Sustainably managed woodlands perform a vital role as carbon sinks and reservoirs by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it as a component of wood itself. Over time, the soil beneath them is enriched by adding carbon in the form of organic […]
RFS Forestry and Climate Change
The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) has adopted a five-point plan on climate change. RFS says that we can not wait to act on climate change until current rural land support mechanisms transition from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to the Environmental Land Managenment Scheme (ELMS) and its equivalents in the devolved administrations in 2025. RFS […]
Bigger, Better Forests
Bigger, Better Forests is written by Benedict Aleenan for Policy Exchange, a UK think tank. The 90 page report covers topics such as the history of UK woodland policy, incentives, regulations, subsidies, opportunities for tree planting, stimulating demand for harvested wood products and how environmental land management services can be rewarded. Access the full report […]
How the Timber Industry Can Help Solve the Housing Crisis
A report launched in November 2019 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Timber Industries (APPG), highlights the key role timber industries can play in helping the Government meet its targets for housebuilding whilst working to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The report argues that using timber in construction is key to meeting […]
Better Homes, Better Wales, Better World
Better Homes, Better Wales, Better World. Decarbonising existing homes in Wales. Report to Welsh Ministers from the Decarbonisation of Homes in Wales Advisory Group. 18 July 2019 Summary of Recommendations: 1. Political parties in Wales should make a strategic commitment to national residential decarbonisation and stick to it 2. The Welsh Government should set ambitious […]
