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Land Use for Net Zero update October 2024: Land Manager’s Perspectives

What might farmers and other land users and land managers do in the quest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase their sequestration of carbon? To kickstart discussions at the  LUNZ Hub ‘Big Tent’ event in Edinburgh, where almost 100 people from practice, research and policy met to discuss the issue, Rob Fraser , one of the artist leads from …

What might farmers and other land users and land managers do in the quest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase their sequestration of carbon?

To kickstart discussions at the  LUNZ Hub ‘Big Tent’ event in Edinburgh, where almost 100 people from practice, research and policy met to discuss the issue, Rob Fraser , one of the artist leads from the PLACE Collective, brought together the perspectives of seven people in two short films. https://lunzhub.com/resources/land-use-and-net-zero-land-managers-perspectives/

Questions posed to the interviewees:

  1. What do you understand by the term ‘Net Zero’?
  2. To follow on from this, what does a drive to reach ‘Net Zero’ mean for your business/practice?
  3. Have you experienced any direct impact of a changing climate?
  4. Thinking about your business/practice/area: Are there any practices, either already in place, or new initiatives or adaptations, that are part of Land use for Net Zero and for nature recovery?
  5. What motivated that change?
  6. What are the positive impacts of adapting practices – for you, for your business/community?
  7. What are the main challenges in adapting practice or introducing something new?
  8. What if anything will help you to make (further) changes or introduce something new in your business/farm/practice/area?
  9. What role do you feel that government policies have to play in a just transition?
  10. The full name of the LUNZ Hub is Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People. If the land and wildlife were part of this conversation, what do you think they might say, or ask of us?
  11. What do you think will happen to your landscape/farm/community/woodland if the UK doesn’t reach its Net Zero targets by 2050.
  12. Where and how, in the midst of everything that’s going on, do you find joy?

 

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