{"id":25212,"date":"2020-01-31T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25212"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:08:02","slug":"national-trust-to-plant-millions-of-trees-as-it-pledges-to-become-carbon-neutral-within-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25212","title":{"rendered":"National Trust to plant millions of trees as it pledges to become carbon neutral within a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19498\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Trees_PBadcock2015-225x300.png\" alt=\"trees\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>The National Trust will plant 20 million trees on its land in the next decade as the charity pledges to become carbon neutral by 2030.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration only &#8211; by P Badcock<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>inews writes:<\/p>\n<p>The 18,000 hectares of new woodland will take up an area one and half times the size of Manchester and is the equivalent of 42 extra Sherwood Forests.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement, ahead of the National Trust&#8217;s 125th anniversary on Sunday, will take tree cover on its land from 10 per cent to 17 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Europe&#8217;s biggest conservation charity, we have a responsibility to do everything we can to fight climate change, which poses the biggest threat to places, nature and collections we care for&#8221;,\u00a0 said Hilary McGrady\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/environment\/national-trust-plant-millions-trees-pledges-become-carbon-neutral-1360371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Trust will plant 20 million trees on its land in the next decade as the charity pledges to become carbon neutral by 2030. image for illustration only &#8211; by P Badcock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25213,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25212\/revisions\/25213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}