Certain peat-containing products will be exempt from a sales ban until 2030, disappointing environmental groups who are calling for an immediate ban on all horticultural uses of peat

Peat extraction in 2020 alone could release up to 880,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, new study finds

The new scheme aims to create up to 3,000 jobs such as ecologists, surveyors, nature reserve staff and education workers in environmental organisations and support their suppliers

Collectively, the sites could ‘create over 8000 new jobs and increase the UK’s clean heat output by almost 3TWh per year’