Abstract
Environmental Stewardship was introduced to build on the already successful Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) scheme and the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS). Although primarily engaged with resource protection such as soil and water and the enhancement of biodiversity, the alterations in land use that are undertaken during the implementation of ES options do have implications for climate change. The precursor to this project: BD2302 focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation within Environmental Stewardship (ES) – establishing the potential for delivery of climate change mitigation under the scheme. However, sufficient time has now elapsed to warrant a review of this work to ensure that the scenarios continue to be robust and that the most up-to-date parameters are incorporated within the calculations. In addition, new options have been introduced to ES (in the main UELS options) which were not included in the original work.
United Kingdom