Blue Carbon is an environmentally-focused musical journey featuring Grammy-nominated Music Producer and DJ Jayda G, with music from hip hop artist RZA (Wu Tang Clan) and Brazilian brilliant performer Seu Jorge.  

Blue carbon is the term given to three coastal ecosystems - seagrass meadows, mangroves, and tidal marshes - that fringe every continent. In the past 50 years, we have drained, paved, and polluted over one-third of the world’s Blue Carbon habitats.  But we are also destroying the ability of those ecosystems to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.  To avoid a climate disaster, we need to remove at least 23 billion tons of Co2 every year by 2030. Blue Carbon habitats can absorb at least 5% of that - and that is not a drop in the ocean. 

Blue Carbon is a Make Waves and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios production directed by Emmy/BAFTA-winning filmmaker Nicolas Brown (The Serengeti Rules). Executive producers are Sarah Macdonald and Sean B. Carroll, alongside Philippe de Bourbon, David Guy Elisco Claude Grunitzky, Alexander Asen, Sian Kevill, Don Mullan, M. Sanjayan, and Jill Kauffman Johnson. The film is supported by Conservation International, with additional funding from The Erol Foundation and Ocean Borne, alongside CNN Films and European broadcasters, NDR (Germany) and Canal+ (France).  NDR will broadcast Blue Carbon on the 22nd November online ARD Mediathek and on the 27th November on linear ARD TV.

The film follows Grammy-nominated Music Producer, DJ and Environmental Toxicologist Jayda G, on a global journey to understand how Blue Carbon can help mitigate the effects of climate change and how we can protect these fragile ecosystems from further destruction. The film explores shorelines from Senegal and Vietnam to France, Florida, Brazil, and Colombia.

Blue Carbon is also supported by an education and outreach campaign that will generate grassroots activism around blue carbon ecosystems and engage high-level policymakers in conversation about how to harness nature-based solutions.