Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review

A Pessarrodona, RM Franco‐Santos… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The conservation, restoration, and improved management of terrestrial forests significantly
contributes to mitigate climate change and its impacts, as well as providing numerous co …

[HTML][HTML] Potential role of seaweeds in climate change mitigation

FWR Ross, PW Boyd, K Filbee-Dexter… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Seaweed (macroalgae) has attracted attention globally given its potential for climate change
mitigation. A topical and contentious question is: Can seaweeds' contribution to climate …

Seaweed blue carbon: ready? Or not?

R Fujita, S Augyte, J Bender, P Brittingham… - Marine Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
There is an urgent need to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). At the same time, greenhouse gasses (GHGs) that contribute to global warming …

[HTML][HTML] The potential for mangrove and seagrass blue carbon in Small Island States

DA Friess - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Blue carbon is a key natural climate solution for Small Island States.•Small Island
States could hold almost 2900 Tg of blue carbon.•Only 23% of Small Island States have …

Large global variations in the carbon dioxide removal potential of seaweed farming due to biophysical constraints

IB Arzeno-Soltero, BT Saenz, CA Frieder… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Estimates suggest that over 4 gigatons per year of carbon dioxide (Gt-CO2 year− 1) be
removed from the atmosphere by 2050 to meet international climate goals. One strategy for …

[HTML][HTML] Seaweed afforestation at large-scales exclusively for carbon sequestration: Critical assessment of risks, viability and the state of knowledge

F Ross, P Tarbuck, PI Macreadie - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There have been discussions of scaling up offshore seaweed cultivation and sinking it
exclusively for carbon sequestration ('ocean afforestation') and thereby help mitigate climate …

The potential climate benefits of seaweed farming in temperate waters

CD Bullen, J Driscoll, J Burt, T Stephens… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Seaweed farming is widely promoted as an approach to mitigating climate change despite
limited data on carbon removal pathways and uncertainty around benefits and risks at …

[HTML][HTML] Blue carbon science, management and policy across a tropical urban landscape

DA Friess, YM Gatt, TK Fung, JB Alemu… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ability of vegetated coastal ecosystems to sequester high rates of “blue” carbon over
millennial time scales has attracted the interest of national and international policy makers …

Climate benefits of seaweed farming

HK Alleway - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
Seaweed farming is gaining attention as a potential climate change mitigation solution, but
how to achieve such potential is uncertain given current knowledge and practice. A study …

A synthesis review of nature positive approaches and coexistence in the offshore wind industry

JCF Pardo, M Aune, C Harman… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Offshore wind is one of the major fast-growing renewable energy industries, and sustainable
implementation of offshore wind farms (OWF) is desired. Nature positive approaches have …