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<p>The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017, sets out how
we will decarbonise the UK. The Strategy identified the important role for tree planting
to contribute to carbon budget commitments, particularly in later carbon budget periods.</p><p>
</p><p>The Committee on Climate Change emphasised the importance of tree planting
in its independent assessment of the Strategy, published in January this year. Furthermore,
in April the government announced plans to ask the Committee on Climate Change to
report on the implications of the Paris Agreement's target.</p><p> </p>
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