Targets to end the use of peat-based products will be missed in what environmentalists say is a massive blow in the UK’s carbon-reduction targets.
Peat is an organic material that takes hundreds of years to develop.
Natural England estimates the UK has lost around 94% of its peatlands over the past century, through agricultural development, forestry and mining for use in horticulture.
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