NE announces funding for six projects to test carbon capture methods

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Natural England (NE) has announced that six projects across England will receive a share of £4.3m in funding to test the most effective ways to carbon capture and mitigate the impacts of climate change. The six projects aim to restore landscapes across England, from Plymouth to Northumberland, and assess how carbon is captured and stored across different habitats such as forests, grasslands, wetlands and hedgerows. This includes the Wild Exmoor Carbon Sequestration Project that was awarded nearly £1m to deliver targeted nature-based solutions and carbon capture across its 670-hectare Watersmeet estate, and Plymouth’s Natural Grid Nature Based Solutions for Climate Change at the Landscape Scale project, where £1m in funding aims to support the city council in collaborating with the National Trust to restore natural habitats and create local solutions to climate change in the urban environment, among others.