Grown in Britain is lead partner in this years conference to tackle the challenges of accelerating woodland creation in England and Wales to achieve a green recovery.

With the COP26 international climate summit taking place later this year, a new England Tree Strategy and new National Forest for Wales, this online event offers a timely opportunity to come together to chart the course towards meeting these stretching aims.

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Woodland creation continues to rise up the agenda as all sectors strive for carbon net zero and the additional benefits tree planting offers, from growing the domestic timber market to addressing the nature crisis and improving people’s wellbeing.

Building on the success of its inaugural year in 2020, the 2021 Conference will bring together landowners and managers, foresters, land agents, rural advisors, sustainability leaders, policy advisers, regulators, researchers and woodland specialists across all sectors, to tackle the unique challenges of significantly increasing woodland creation and management in England and Wales.

It is being organised by Ecosystems Knowledge Network, a charity with strong Government links that specialises in bringing professionals together across sectors to enable wellbeing and prosperity for everyone through a healthy natural environment.

With ambitious public, private and third sector tree planting goals, this online event offers a timely opportunity to come together; Welsh Government is pioneering new activity to meet its woodland creation ambitions and the much-anticipated England Tree Strategy is being prepared for publication. All of this is set in the context of HM Government’s target to plant 30,000 ha of trees per annum UK-wide.

            Delegates will gain invaluable insight into:

• The business case for landowners and managers to become involved in woodland creation and management: grants, revenue and opportunity costs.
• Innovations in tree planting programmes.
• Opportunities in agroforestry and urban tree planting.
• Actions that will grow capability for woodland creation and management: nursery stock, biosecurity, skills and infrastructure.

The conference will include an exhibition zone where delegates can meet sponsors and partners, and online networking enabling conversation and collaborative working. 

The 2021 Conference welcomes Strutt & Parker and John Clegg & Co as headline sponsors; The Forest Canopy Foundation, Forest Carbon, Lockhart Garratt and the Woodland Trust as sponsors; and Grown in Britain as lead partner.

View the outline agenda here.