Kelp Currency

Overview

Kelp forests are vital ocean ecosystems, offering shelter and food to coastal communities and thousands of marine species. Kelp forests may also play a crucial role in climate change mitigation, but their ability to absorb and store carbon dioxide remains virtually unknown. Kelp Currency features emerging research from the Seatrees Kelp Carbon Science Project and Scripps Institution of Oceanography to measure the carbon benefits of kelp forests—an effort that is only just beginning. Their goal is to develop a way to track kelp carbon budgets, with the hopes of unlocking new finance tools that could provide the missing funding needed to restore kelp forests globally.