Labour’s environment manifesto pledges to plant 2 billion trees by the year 2040. The policy has raised some eyebrows: it amounts to 200 trees a minute every day for the next 20 years, which sounds like a lot.
Is it out of sync with other parties?
In reality, the policy is ambitious, but not actually impractical or unrealistic. While the party’s commitment is the biggest tree-planting pledge of the main parties, the others’ are in the same order of magnitude:
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