Blue carbon

'The star of the show is mud': Exploring the vast amounts of carbon stored beneath Britain's waves

Climate change

'The star of the show is mud': Exploring the vast amounts of carbon stored beneath Britain's waves

Scientists have mapped the carbon stored in the top layer of the UK's seabed - and the results have potentially major implications for the UK's net zero targets and renewable energy ambitions

clock 19 September 2024 • 13 min read
Sea Change Finance Facility: Banks, insurers, and NGOs team up to build framework for ocean finance

Investment

Sea Change Finance Facility: Banks, insurers, and NGOs team up to build framework for ocean finance

Public-private coalition formed to create 'open architecture for ocean investment at scale' to help drive financial flows to coastal and ocean protection and restoration

clock 14 February 2022 • 3 min read

Biodiversity

Coastal carbon capture and biodiversity projects secure £9.2m marine research funding

Potential of mangoves and seagrass to capture CO2 and support biodiversity to be explored as six marine and coastal projects secure backing from UK Research and Innovation

clock 27 July 2021 • 2 min read

Carbon Accounting

'Critical to the UK's carbon strategy': Conservationists call for national 'blue carbon' strategy

Green groups argue rewilding UK waters must be a central tenet of government’s net zero plans

clock 03 May 2021 • 3 min read