Tuesday 25 August 2020

BrewDog to acquire ‘carbon-negative’ status with plans to develop 2,000-acre forest

Scottish craft brewer BrewDog has announced it has secured 'carbon negative status' and it vows to remove twice as carbon from the air than it emits every year.

Carbon negativity is the reduction of an entity’s carbon footprint to less than neutral so that the entity has a net effect of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere rather than adding it.

The brewer aims to achieve it with green investments across its business and the purchase of 2,050 acres of land in the Scottish Highlands, just north of Loch Lomond.

The firm will use 1,500 acres to create broadleaf native woodlands aiming to plant around one million trees in the next few years. It will also dedicate 550 acres to peatland restoration, recognising the role of restored peatlands for carbon dioxide sequestration.

Brewdog says all of the carbon removal work at its own forest will be third party verified.

Professor Mike Berners-Lee, Lead Scientific Advisor of BrewDog, said: "BrewDog is giving some of the leadership the world so badly needs.

"They are raising the bar for the business world. After decades of inaction, we have a full-on climate crisis on our hands. The scale and speed of the change we now need is enormous. The good news is that if we are smart about our transition, we can make our lives better at the same time as more sustainable."