Natural carbon uptake by ocean biology will not deliver credible carbon credits

Lennart T. Bach; Phil Williamson; Joanna I. House; Philip W. Boyd

doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00741-3

Natural carbon uptake by ocean biology will not deliver credible carbon credits

Lennart T. Bach^*, Phil Williamson, Joanna I. House, Philip W. Boyd

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Natural CO₂ removal is increasingly being claimed as anthropogenic climate mitigation. This misrepresentation is already prevalent for forests and coastal ecosystems; there is now the risk of the error reoccurring for open-ocean CO₂ uptake via the biological carbon pump.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	767-768
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
Volume	6
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00741-3
Publication status	Published - Dec 2025

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Natural carbon uptake by ocean biology will not deliver credible carbon credits

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