Blue forests: a review of carbon offset strategies with seaweed aquaculture – feasibility, current knowledge, and suggestions for future research.

Alasdair  O’Dell; Maxine  Canvin; Florian  de Bettignies; Grisenthwaite Rob; Karen  Filbee-Dexter; Adam Hughes; Kasper  Hancke; Dorte Krause-Jensen Krause-Jensen; Adrian  Macleod; Pippa Moore; Aurora  Ricart; Julie  Rostan; Craig Smeaton; Michele  Stanley; Daniel  Smale; Jean-Baptiste  Thomas; Max  Troell; Michael Burrows

Blue forests: a review of carbon offset strategies with seaweed aquaculture – feasibility, current knowledge, and suggestions for future research.

Alasdair O’Dell^*, Maxine Canvin, Florian de Bettignies, Grisenthwaite Rob , Karen Filbee-Dexter, Adam Hughes, Kasper Hancke, Dorte Krause-Jensen Krause-Jensen, Adrian Macleod, Pippa Moore, Aurora Ricart, Julie Rostan, Craig Smeaton, Michele Stanley, Daniel Smale, Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Max Troell, Michael Burrows

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Abstract

In September 2022, a group of international collaborators gathered from six European countries (hereby referred to as the ‘working group’) to take part in a workshop at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Oban.

The workshop was funded as part of Marine Scotland’s Blue Carbon International Policy Challenge (BCIPC). The main aim of the workshop was to produce a document outlining the potential for carbon offset by macroalgal aquaculture. The discussions held at the workshop focused on various concepts and hypotheses surrounding carbon drawdown by seaweed aquaculture and the potential for mitigation of atmospheric CO2. The key points of these discussions have been compiled into a policy brief which aims to highlight important areas for future research, uncertainties and challenges faced by the industry, policy makers and other stakeholders.

Original language	English
Publisher	Scottish Association for Marine Science
Commissioning body	Scottish Government
Number of pages	22
Publication status	Published - 5 Jul 2023

Keywords

Carbon
Kelp
Seaweed
Organic carbon
Grow
Sink
Farming
Aquaculture
Blue carbon
Blue forests
Feed
Ecology
Marine
Coastal
Sediments

UN SDGs

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O’Dell, A., Canvin, M., de Bettignies, F., Rob , G., Filbee-Dexter, K., Hughes, A., Hancke, K., Krause-Jensen, D. K.-J., Macleod, A., Moore, P., Ricart, A., Rostan, J., Smeaton, C., Stanley, M., Smale, D., Thomas, J.-B., Troell, M., & Burrows, M. (2023). Blue forests: a review of carbon offset strategies with seaweed aquaculture – feasibility, current knowledge, and suggestions for future research. Scottish Association for Marine Science.

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Blue forests: a review of carbon offset strategies with seaweed aquaculture – feasibility, current knowledge, and suggestions for future research.

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