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Changes to the cost of an abstraction licence to run a hydropower scheme to generate renewable electricity on your land, amount to a 'tax on renewable energy' - according to the British Hydropower Association. Anyone taking more than 20,000 litres of water per day from a stream, river or canal in England needs an abstraction licence from the Environment Agency - but in April, application charges were increased.

The COP27 Egyptian presidency has launched a new initiative called 'Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation' or FAST - run by the United Nations - to provide funding to transform agriculture and food systems to be more sustainable by 2030. But has food and farming been high enough on the agenda at the climate conference?

It's often said that environmentally sound local food production is the way to combat for climate change - but we hear from the New Zealand Agricultural Minister, Damien O鈥機onnor, who believes global food trade done in the right way could contribute to reducing emissions.

And the Government has ambitious plans to treble tree planting rates in England during this Parliament, but it鈥檚 identified a shortage of skilled foresters. We meet students studying for the newly created forestry apprenticeship scheme.

Presented by Anna Hill
Produced for 大象传媒 Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons