Submitting... “Applied across a national scale, there is scope to deliver more than £60m of income to the farming community through carbon credits for hedgerow management and planting,” he said. Dr Leake explained that hedgerows sequester carbon at twice the rate of woodland because of their three-dimensional structure adding that England’s hedges already store nine million tonnes of carbon. The Code will include a tool which will enable the carbon stored in a hedge to be calculated and verified, “incentivising” land managers to plant and manage hedgerows which will be a key part of the Sustainable Farming Incentive, one of three schemes which makes up the new ‘public money for public goods’ Environment Land Management Scheme.