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UK businesses can now instantly reduce their carbon footprints by purchasing credits created by forestry projects.

• Woodland Carbon Code Version 2.0 launched:
  • Widened the definition of a 'single project'

The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) has accredited Acoura and Soil Association for verification of Woodland Carbon Code projects. Both were previously accredited for validation. 

A young woodland in West Lothian, Scotland, has become the first project in the UK to be ‘verified’ as continuing to meet the standards of the Woodland Carbon Code after ‘passing’ its first five-yearly progress inspection. 

A streamlined and more cost-effective process for certifying and managing small woodlands to the standards of the Woodland Carbon Code was launched today. 

The first units of carbon dioxide set to be sequestered, or removed from the atmosphere, by woodlands validated under the UK’s Woodland Carbon Code have been notified for sale for the first time as National Climate Week gets under way. 

• Woodland Carbon Code V1.2 released

UK Woodland Carbon Code launched on Markit Environmental Registry, enhancing transparency and accountability in the trade in British Woodland Carbon Units.  Carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestered, or absorbed, by WCC-validated woodlands in the UK can be traded, and the development enables changes of ownership of each tonne to be tracked. The registry will also record when projects are registered and credits are listed, and when carbon units have been “used” by a company in its carbon account. 

Creating new woodlands to help combat climate change has been made easier with the launch of a Woodland Carbon Code group validation scheme.  Now open to new applicants, the group scheme allows several tree-planting projects to be validated together, thereby making possible potentially significant cost savings.