Abstract
This project, with its focus on greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation within Environmental Stewardship (ES), supports a UK Sustainable Development Strategy and a Defra Strategic Priority(3) 'Climate change and energy', with reduced greenhouse gas emissions the strategic outcome. 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 the undertaking of ES options will require may have implications for climate change.
United Kingdom