Britain could tackle its jobs crisis and unlock future growth by employing people to plant trees, a report suggests.
The government should set up a National Conservation Corps to help meet its target of planting 30,000 hectares of woodland each year, the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Cambridge University said.
It would help the government to meet its climate targets, create jobs for those who have lost them during the pandemic and help to reduce the number of people falling into long-term unemployment, the report says.
A similar scheme was launched by Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression in America. Shortly after taking office in 1933, the US president established a Civilian Conservation Corps to provide work for jobless young men. Three billion trees
