UK needs twice as much forest – and 40k new forestry jobs

16 year olds who’ve just had their GCSE results and are wondering what to do next might be interested in following up the idea that the UK could see the creation of up to 40K new jobs in forestry and in primary wood processing (work in timber haulage, sawmills, pulp mills and wood based panel mills).

This prediction is made in the recently-published report, Zero Carbon Britain – Rethinking the Future (ZCB RTF), from the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.
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