Peat cut and left to dry on a wetland in the Scottish Highlands DrimaFilm/Shutterstock
The UK is the world’s largest exporter of whisky, which has been distilled in Scotland for 500 years. But the peat used to flavour some Scotch whiskies is increasingly under the spotlight as the fight against climate change steps up.
The conservation of peatland will be a key talking point at the COP26 climate summit now under way in Glasgow, UK, because peat stores large amounts of carbon. Some estimates suggest that UK peatlands contain more than 3 billion tonnes of it – about the same…
