NOC’s Blue Carbon research aims to understand the ocean’s role in reducing carbon in the atmosphere. The ocean already absorbs 25% of annual carbon emissions and there is potential for significantly more.
The ocean offers enormous potential in the fight against climate change, but a thriving blue carbon sector requires a major scaling up of the UK science capacity for sampling, analysis and insight.
Our Blue Carbon work aims to grow our understanding of the rate at which ocean ecosystems capture and store carbon, the existing or potential emissions resulting from changes to them, and their contribution to supporting fisheries and the coastal protection they can provide.
SUPPORTING NOC’S BLUE CARBON RESEARCH WILL:
- Improve our understanding of how much carbon the ocean stores and where
- Uncover how seagrass habitats, corals, and fisheries affect each other
- Help global decision makers to protect and restore carbon habitats
- Inform future marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) approaches
- Impact policy and carbon finance
- Put the ocean at the centre of conversations about our climate and net-zero
We work with businesses and philanthropists, who are likeminded visionaries, to advance our global understanding of the ocean. To find out more about partnerships to advance carbon research please contact Jo at please contact Jo at jo.cole@noc.ac.uk or call +44 (0) 7562 167 556.