Emissions of greenhouse gases contributes to global environmental change; it has been estimated that around 31% of the total Scottish emissions is due to Land Use Change and Forestry given the preponderance of organic soils in Scotland. Scottish soils contain around 4.5 m tonnes of carbon.
This compares to 0.1 m tonnes in British vegetation and 7.9 m tonnes in the European tree stock.
Links:
[1] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/images/explorescotland/es-tom2.jpg
[2] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/learning/exploringscotland/introduction
[3] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/learning/exploringscotland/soils-and-sustainability