Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
I don't understand why not counting peat bogs as part of Scotland's CO2 emissions is being done. a very quick look at Google shows that it is the draining of wet peat bogs to use the peat that creates emissions of carbon. If they stay wet then apparently on a worldwide basis they hold more carbon than all the other forests in the world.

Why would the Scottish Government not want to record the CO2 emissions from peat bogs?
I enclose the Climate Change interim report produced for the Scottish Government in December 2019 and I suggest that you pay particular attention to Page 80 headed Peatland restoration which explains everything including the likely increase in the annual total of CO2 emissions throughout Scotland as a result of the CO2 emissions from Peatlands now being counted. https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content...iament-CCC.pdf