Native Broadleaf Woodland
A block of new native broadleaf woodland — mixed species planted at density to establish a self-sustaining habitat. The landscape-scale carbon and biodiversity play: real sequestration under the Woodland Carbon Code and high-distinctiveness habitat, given space and decades.
Carbon and evidence
Carbon Sink & Ecosystem Services
A living landscape element — a carbon sink and provider of ecosystem services, not a manufactured product. Its value is measured by sequestration and biodiversity, not embodied carbon, and it must never be netted against a product’s A1–A3.
Carbon Sequestration
Sequestered — carbon removed from the atmosphere
average over ~100 years for new native broadleaf woodland; front-loaded as it establishes
Source: Woodland Carbon Code
Indicative and highly variable by species, size, soil and context. Sequestration is slow and reversible — it is not equivalent to avoiding an emission and must not offset embodied product carbon.
Biodiversity Net Gain
native broadleaf woodland is a high-distinctiveness habitat
Source: Defra Biodiversity Metric 4.0
England requires a 10% Biodiversity Net Gain; distinctiveness is one input to the habitat unit calculation.
Water / SuDS
canopy and soil intercept and slow runoff
Source: CIRIA SuDS Manual (C753)
Ecosystem Services
Establishment & Maintenance
planting, protection (guards/stakes) and early maintenance carry an upfront carbon cost, repaid over decades
Read This Honestly
- •Sequestration is slow, uncertain and reversible — it un-banks if the plant dies.
- •Never offset embodied product carbon with it.
- •Needs space and decades — sequestration is real but slow to accrue.
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Specification
- Finish
- Native woodland planting
- Service life
- 60 years