Survey work is taking place to calculate how much carbon dioxide is stored within peatland in Cumbria.

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Peatland can store over 5, 000 tonnes of carbon per hectare, and when drained for cultivation emits it for decades.

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In 2005, a similar investment in preventing deforestation and peatland destruction could have offset the equivalent of up to 37% of all UK CO2 emissions.

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Located in the far north of the Scottish Highlands, the area encompasses around 2000 sq km of mountain, peatland, beach, forest and coastline across west Sutherland and on to the north coast.

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The Geopark extends roughly from Durness to Ullapool, and the landscape it contains has inspired many who have explored its 480 square miles of mountains, peatland, beaches, forest and coast.

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To win certification, Rimba Raya has to show that the forest is under genuine threat: no point in giving carbon credits for conserving trees and peatland that were not in danger anyway.

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Tom Dargie, who runs Boreas Ecology argues that the 1972 study was based was a different type of peatland which is much wetter, and therefore inappropriate for calculating impacts on the Lewis peatlands.

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The NGO made fresh allegations: that SMART, a palm-oil producer, a member of the RSPO and a part of Sinar Mas, an Indonesian conglomerate, was involved in illegal deforestation and clearance of peatland.

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