Provided that the existing series of projects are implemented, Foresight Sustainable Forestry (FSF) will plant around 9 million trees in the UK over the next 2 years, creating over 4,000 hectares of newly reforested land. This equates to around a third of all tree planting that took place in the UK during 2022. Planting new trees provides the UK with two key benefits. First, forests, including those that are commercially managed on a rotational basis for wood supply, act as carbon sinks, meaning they take more carbon from the atmosphere than they release. Although it's easy to forget amid the ever-changing news cycle, the UK government still has a net zero target, which aims to reduce emissions from 1990 levels to zero by 2050. (David Kimberley)