Street Survey on Societal Acceptance of Blue Carbon along the German Coasts 2022 - sea4soCiety Study Report & Questionnaire

In the context of climate change mitigation, ‘carbon dioxide removal’ (CDR) refers to the capture and long-term storage of atmospheric CO₂. ‘Blue carbon’ is a nature-based marine CDR option as it refers to carbon trapped in marine environments. Coastal vegetated ecosystems (CVEs) are assumed to have huge potentials as carbon sinks. Within the sea4soCiety consortium as part of the interdisciplinary CDRmare research mission (Phase I, 2021 – 2024), we conducted a survey along the German coasts to gather values and perceptions of coastal residents regarding their home region, CVEs and climate change. This publication contains a study report on the metadata of the survey (research context, data generation and processing) and the original questionnaire (in German).

Keywords: blue carbon, carbon dioxide removal, climate change mitigation, coastal vegetated ecosystems, Germany, metadata, perception, societal acceptance, street survey