What does the failure to ban the sale of peat tell us about the net zero transition?

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The decades-long failure of the campaign to ban the commercial sale of peat offers a number lessons for the transition to a low-carbon economy, argues Trewin Restorick

In 1991 Friends of the Earth produced ‘Gardening without peat' described as an essential book on peat alternatives. Over 30 years later, despite numerous campaigns, there is still no ban on the commercial...

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