Blue carbon: All the reasons why we love it, and so should you

Zoë Sanders

Coastal and marine ecosystems lock away massive amounts of blue carbon but have long been overlooked as a climate solution. Can we give blue carbon the attention it deserves?

Image © Curioso Photography

Zoë Sanders

Image © Curioso Photography

Jeremy Bishop
A mangrove tree in Walakiri Beach, East Sumba Regency, Indonesia · Sutirta Budiman
A juvenile lemon shark swimming in the mangroves · Anita Kainrath
Flock of wading birds on a salt marsh on the Essex coast, UK · Chris Lawrence
A seagrass bed in the Itchetucknee River, Florida, U.S. · James White & Danita Delimont
Mangrove planting in Mozambique · Eden Reforestation Projects
A scientist collecting a sediment core to assess carbon storage rates of a tidal seagrass bed in Williamstown, Australia · Izzet Noyan
Aiisha Photography
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Zoë Sanders

Director of Communications

An arts writer who later fell under the ocean’s spell and never looked back, Zoë loves going cold water swimming in the sea in her home city on the south east coast of England.

Brighton & Hove, England