Natural England have released a comprehensive report on the Carbon Storage and Sequestration by Habitat 2021. It describes in detail the role different types of natural habits in Britain play in capturing carbon from the atmosphere. This comes weeks before the Environment Agency plan to release a similar report ‘Achieving Net Zero carbon emissions – a […]
A comprehensive Natural England report on the impact of the nation’s landscape on carbon storage and sequestration, has found that peatlands and native woodlands are habitats which have the greatest capacity to store carbon, but that many others, including coastal and marine habitats such as saltmarsh and seagrass meadows have a significant role to play a […]
Seagrasses, mangrove forests, and coastal wetlands store vast amounts of carbon, and their preservation and restoration hold great potential to bank CO2 and keep it out of the atmosphere. But can the blue carbon market avoid the pitfalls that have plagued land-based efforts? In the shallow waters off the shores of Virginia, vast meadows of seagrass have been recreated over the past […]
Gordon Watson ‘Our paper, “Assessing the natural capital value of water quality and climate regulation in temperate marine systems using a EUNIS biotope classification approach “ recently published in Science of the Total Environment has shown temperate intertidal and subtidal sediment systems to be some of the most valuable biotopes in terms of sequestering nitrogen, […]