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68m more trees required for UK to offset its carbon emissions

960 640 Stuart O'Brien
The UK needs to plant 68.4 million trees to offset its carbon emissions and North Lincolnshire has the highest number to plant with almost 1.5 million trees required annually.
That’s according to a study conducted CompareTheMarket.com, which analyses annual emissions from 379 local authorities (342,004,200 tCO2) in the UK to calculate the number of trees needed every year to counteract their total carbon footprint (68,400,840 trees).
Local authorities that would need to plant the most trees: 

Rank

Local authority

Region

Annual emissions (tCO2)

Annual trees needed to offset carbon footprint

1

North Lincolnshire

Yorkshire and the Humber

7,445,200

1,489,040

2

Neath Port Talbot

Wales

6,505,800

1,301,160

3

Birmingham

West Midlands

4,129,400

825,880

4

Leeds

Yorkshire and the Humber

3,904,900

780,980

5

Cheshire West and Chester

North West

3,620,400

724,080

6

High Peak

East Midlands

2,832,900

566,580

7

Fife

Scotland

2,804,900

560,980

8

Wiltshire

South West

2,694,500

538,900

9

Cornwall

South West

2,690,900

538,180

10

East Riding of Yorkshire

Yorkshire and the Humber

2,660,900

532,180

North Lincolnshire is the local authority that requires the highest number of trees to offset its CO2 emissions as it’s home to the Tata-owned Appleby-Frodingham steel plant, one of the largest and most successful steelworks in Europe. With annual emissions of 7,445,200 tCO2, the area needs to plant 1,489,040 trees to make it carbon neutral.

Neath Port Talbot followed in second place, needing 1,301,160 trees to offset their carbon emissions of 6,505,800 tCO2.

Two of the country’s major cities filled the next two spots as Birmingham and Leeds took third and fourth place respectively.

Local authorities that would need to plant the least trees: 

Rank

Local authority

Region

Emissions (tCO2)

Annual trees needed to offset carbon footprint

1

Isles of Scilly

South West

9,400

1,880

2

Argyll and Bute

Scotland

57,500

11,500

3

Oadby and Wigston

East Midlands

179,300

35,860

4

Highland

Scotland

190,200

38,040

5

Orkney Islands

Scotland

192,400

38,480
You can read the entire entire study here.