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.
Natural carbon uptake by ocean biology will not deliver credible carbon credits
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Research theme(s)
Monitoring, reporting, verification & Socio-ecological systems
Monitoring, reporting, verification & Socio-ecological systems
Publication type
Article Comment
Article Comment
Author(s)
Lennart T. Bach, Phil Williamson, Joanna I. House, Philip W. Boyd
Lennart T. Bach, Phil Williamson, Joanna I. House, Philip W. Boyd
Publication date
November 5, 2025
November 5, 2025
Publisher
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment