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20 May, 2020
The Importance of Blue Carbon
Evidence is growing of the central role that Scotland’s marine area plays in our national carbon accounts. It is estimated that 7.2 Million tonnes of carbon is buried annually in sediments in Scotland’s seas (1). And the top 10cm of Scotland’s seabed sediment (the most vulnerable layer) stores some 5,555Mt CO2-equivalent, more than double the
