The last few months have seen a new tactic from the oil and gas industry. It has started to promise to offset carbon emissions by large reforestation programmes. In itself, this does no harm. But the world needs both to decarbonise energy supply AND massive reforestation. The UK, for example, probably needs to increase tree cover from about 12% of land surface to around 30%, the level achieved in all other large European countries.

Familia Torres, the entity that controls the largest wine business in Spain, asked me to write a blog post on this subject. Torres is a world leader in emissions reduction and adaptation to climate change. At the same time, it is reforesting large areas in Spain and Chile. Its plans for southern Chile envisage a plantation of at least 5,000 hectares. This alone is at least half the annual rate achieved in the whole of the UK.

The blog post is here