We broadly support this policy.
We suggest that there are potential conflicts between this policy and CC/CS which need to be explored. A large part of Greater Cambridge’s carbon emissions comes from ‘wasted peat’. To protect the remaining carbon stock in our peatlands and restore them to a net carbon sink, significant land management changes will be necessary including allowing some rewetting of the peat soils. This will entail loss of agricultural yields (which must however be set against the total collapse of food production in the worst climate scenarios).
We seek reassurance that this policy would not prevent habitat restoration projects on drained peat soils currently under agricultural use.