Woodland Carbon Code Projects

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Summary

The Woodland Carbon Code (www.woodlandcarboncode.org.uk) is the standard for UK woodland creation projects where carbon is accounted for. It is managed by the Forestry Commission. All projects have to register, and are publicly available on the UK Woodland Carbon Registry, managed by Markit (www.woodlandcarboncode.org.uk/uk-land-carbon-registry). Once registered, they are validated at the outset and then verified at regular intervals throughout the project to check the amount of carbon sequestered, and that the project is sustainably managed.

Woodland Carbon Code projects are expected to be managed in line with their agreed management plan (to ensure the predicted amount of carbon sequestration is realised), and a landowner has the responsibility to ensure future landowners are aware of the commitment of a particular land area to the Woodland Carbon Code, should an area of woodland be sold.

This dataset gives the spatial extent of the Woodland Carbon Code projects, along with their current status, species type, and country. The majority of projects also receive a woodland creation grant, but some Woodland Carbon Code projects also include non-grant aided areas, or are not grant aided at all.

Woodland Carbon Code statistics are produced quarterly on the last day of March, June, September and December and available from www.woodlandcarboncode.org.uk/uk-land-carbon-registry.

This layer will be updated each quarter alongside the statistics update.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2023-06-22
Access contraints
No limitations on public access
Harvest GUID
00b1df16-8451-4635-9e8b-f4c15c711be4
Extent
Latitude: 59.39174890716616° to 50.01852769362575°
Longitude: -7.25206770414755° to 3.0771795736156364°
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
Dataset reference date
2017-01-01 (creation)
2022-10-31 (revision)
Frequency of update
quarterly
Responsible party
Forest Research (publisher); Scottish Forestry (owner)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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