NI Blue Carbon Habitats — OpenDataNI

About this layer: Blue carbon habitats in temperate coastal and inshore environments include coastal vegetated habitats (saltmarsh and seagrass beds), seabed sediments, and biogenic reefs, but has been as wide-ranging as to include kelp forests, maerl beds, and marine organisms such as phytoplankton which also sequester carbon and turn it into organic matter, with storage spanning short- to long-term timescales. Blue Carbon | The Wildlife Trusts The Northern Ireland Blue Carbon Action Plan has strived to focus not only on the potential of blue carbon habitats as nature-based solutions to climate change, but also on their wider ecosystem services such as providing important habitats for biodiversity and contributing wider environmental and societal benefits. A key objective of the Northern Ireland Blue Carbon Action Plan is to “identify and agree a mechanism of prioritisation of Northern Publisher: OpenDataNI (via data.gov.uk). Delivered as a cleaned, analysis-ready CSV table.

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