Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 32432

Renewable Energy: Seas and Oceans

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 3 March 2025

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that the deployment of offshore renewables is not detrimental to blue carbon stores.

Answer

Michael Shanks
The Government is committed to delivering clean power by 2030, to accelerating to net zero and to restoring nature. The Government needs to ensure that the UK’s marine ecosystems are healthy and capturing and storing carbon too. This means that new energy...

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