The carbon market drives land sales in Scotland
Environmentalists are buying up estates in the Highlands
WHEN PRINCE ALBERT purchased the 20,000-hectare (50,000-acre) Balmoral estate in 1852, he did so for his family and for the views, the grouse and the deer. Owners of estates in the Scottish Highlands have conventionally had similar motives. But a new breed of landowner is drawn to something else entirely: the estates’ ability to suck in carbon from the atmosphere.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Carbonny”
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