Scottish blue carbon action plan
Plan setting out how consideration of blue carbon habitats is being integrated into marine policies and priority actions to address key evidence gaps.
References
1 Burrows M.T., Kamenos N.A., Hughes D.J., Stahl H., Howe J.A. & Tett P. 2014. Assessment of carbon budgets and potential blue carbon stores in Scotland’s coastal and marine environment. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 761
2 UK Blue Carbon Evidence Partnership. 2023. Evidence Needs Statement.
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5Cunningham, C. and Hunt, C. 2023. Scottish Blue Carbon - a literature review of the current evidence for Scotland’s blue carbon habitats. NatureScot Research Report 1326
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7 IPCC. 2013. Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands
8 More information on Strategic Environment Assessments can be found here: Strategic Environmental Assessment: guidance
9 UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Accelerating saltmarsh restoration.
10 Cunningham, C. and Hunt, C. 2023. Scottish Blue Carbon - a literature review of the current evidence for Scotland’s blue carbon habitats. NatureScot Research Report 1326
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12 Cunningham, C. and Hunt, C. 2023. Scottish Blue Carbon - a literature review of the current evidence for Scotland’s blue carbon habitats. NatureScot Research Report 1326
13 Cunningham, C. and Hunt, C. 2023. Scottish Blue Carbon - a literature review of the current evidence for Scotland’s blue carbon habitats. NatureScot Research Report 1326
14 Cunningham, C. and Hunt, C. 2023. Scottish Blue Carbon - a literature review of the current evidence for Scotland’s blue carbon habitats. NatureScot Research Report 1326
15 Kellock, C., Leakey, C., Schröder, C., Melville, N., Khan, J. and Mathieson, S. 2023. Source to Sea - enabling coherent, efficient and synergistic outcomes. NatureScot Research Report 1343.
16 Burrows, M.T., O’Dell, A., Tillin, H., Grundy, S., Sugden, H., Moore, P., Fitzsimmons, C., Austin, W., Smeaton, C. 2024. The United Kingdom’s Blue Carbon Inventory: Assessment of Marine Carbon Storage and Sequestration Potential in UK Seas (Including Within Marine Protected Areas). A Report to The Wildlife Trusts, WWF and the RSPB. Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban.
17 Cunningham, C. and Hunt, C. 2023. Scottish Blue Carbon - a literature review of the current evidence for Scotland’s blue carbon habitats. NatureScot Research Report 1326
18 Burrows M.T., Kamenos N.A., Hughes D.J., Stahl H., Howe J.A. and Tett P. 2014. Assessment of carbon budgets and potential blue carbon stores in Scotland’s coastal and marine environment. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 761.
19 Smeaton, C. Yang, H. and Austin, W.E.N. 2021b. Carbon burial in the mid-latitude fjords of Scotland, Marine Geology, 441.
20 Moffat, C. Baxter, J. Berx, B. Bosley, K. Boulcott, P. Cox, M. Cruickshank L. Gillham, K. Cox, A. Haynes, V. Roberts, A. Vaughan, D. & Webster L. (Eds.). (2020). Scotland's Marine Assessment 2020. Scottish Government.
21 Smeaton, C., Hunt, C.A., Turrell, W.R. and Austin, W.E.N. 2021a. Marine Sedimentary Carbon Stocks of the United Kingdom’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9; Smeaton, C. and Austin, W.E.N. 2022a. Quality not quantity: Prioritizing the management of sedimentary organic matter across continental shelf seas. Geophysical Research Letters, 49,
22 Cunningham, C. and Hunt, C. 2023. Scottish Blue Carbon - a literature review of the current evidence for Scotland’s blue carbon habitats. NatureScot Research Report 1326
23 Cunningham, C. and Hunt, C. 2023. Scottish Blue Carbon - a literature review of the current evidence for Scotland’s blue carbon habitats. NatureScot Research Report 1326
24 Cunningham, C. and Hunt, C. 2023. Scottish Blue Carbon - a literature review of the current evidence for Scotland’s blue carbon habitats. NatureScot Research Report 1326
Contact
Email: marineclimatechange@gov.scot