Blue Carbon – Earth Day Screening

The UNITED presents a special Earth Day screening of Blue Carbon – a lively, beautiful documentary about one of nature’s most overlooked and simple solutions to climate change, blue carbon ecosystems. 

In the fight against climate change, we may have overlooked one of nature’s simple solutions: blue carbon ecosystems. 

Told through the eyes of Grammy-nominated DJ and marine biologist, Jayda Guy – known by her DJ name Jayda G – Blue Carbon is an environmental feature documentary that spins music, science and an appreciation for world culture into a vibrant call to action to protect the planet. Blue carbon refers to coastal habitats – like mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass – that soak up copious amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, while protecting coastal communities from rising seas and powerful storms. The film is a clear-eyed look at what’s at stake and offers tangible solutions – and hope – to boost nature’s ability to heal itself.  

In the film, Jayda’s quest to uncover blue carbon’s potential takes her on a global adventure across six countries and five continents. Blue carbon ecosystems, as Jayda learns, have the incredible ability to protect coastal cities from storms and rising sea levels, foster biodiversity, strengthen food security, and turn down the temperature on the Earth’s thermostat. As she travels from Senegal to Colombia to Vietnam and beyond, she discovers that human development has gobbled up billions of hectares of blue carbon habitat, putting this low cost, climate-mitigating tool at risk. Along the way, she meets local leaders from communities hit hardest by climate change who are leading the charge to restore blue carbon ecosystems and protect their livelihoods. 

Watch the trailer here.