Scotland's Nature | Visit our website @ www.nature.scot
Blue Carbon Partnership | Protecting mangroves, tidal marshes, sea grasses.
Scotland's Nature | Visit our website @ www.nature.scot
Description: Scottish Blue Carbon Forum connects blue carbon experts around a joint vision to develop a collaborative and innovative blue carbon community in Scotland. The Forum enhances our understanding of how Scotland’s Blue Carbon resources contribute to climate change adaptation, mitigation and resilience.
Scottish Blue Carbon Forum The Forum The Scottish Blue Carbon Forum connects blue carbon experts from research institutions, non-government organisations, public bodies and the Scottish Government around a joint vision to develop a collaborative and innovative blue carbon community in Scotland. The Forum aims to enhance our understanding of how Scotland’s blue carbon resources contribute to climate change adaptation, mitigation and resilience. The Forum has partnerships across the UK and internationally, wh
Our partners What is blue carbon? Several definitions of blue carbon exist. The Scottish Blue Carbon Forum defines blue carbon as the carbon captured and stored in marine and coastal ecosystems that accumulates over long timescales through natural processes. In Scotland, blue carbon habitats include saltmarshes, seagrasses, kelp beds, biogenic reefs and geological sedimentary stores, such as seafloor and sea loch sediments.
01 Scotland has 14% of the UK’s saltmarshes, the highest abundance of seagrass habitats in the UK, and considerable sedimentary carbon stores in our sea lochs and shelf and deep sea.
Scotland's Nature | Visit our website @ www.nature.scot
Blue Carbon Partnership | Protecting mangroves, tidal marshes, sea grasses.
Scotland's Nature | Visit our website @ www.nature.scot