Fair Carbon

The Gallifrey Foundation is the sponsor of Fair Carbon protecting and restoring the marine and coastal ecosystems.

Fair Carbon is:
ACTIONABLE, SCIENCE-BASED GUIDANCE

BUILDING THE BRIDGE TO BLUE CARBON INVESTMENT

DRIVEN BY PURPOSE, GUIDED BY INTEGRITY

The equivalent weight of 1.5 billion people in fish is taken from the sea each year. What does this mean for the ecosystem and the creatures that live there? 90% of all big fish populations have been decimated.  Current international law is ineffective in managing this.  The Foundation is leading tangential action to change the paradigm through civil action.

Untangling the Net of ‘Bycatch’ in Commercial Shark Fisheries
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THE PROBLEM

There are not enough nature-based carbon projects despite the high demand from investors. The Blue Carbon – Mind the Gap study by the Gallifrey Foundation concludes this is due to the complexity, expense and time required to design, register and accredit a project.

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WHAT IS FAIR CARBON?

The solution to the problems identified in the Blue Carbon – Mind the Gap report are being realised by Fair Cabon.

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When we ask ourselves to consider if we have been good stewards of our natural resources we must admit we have not always lived up to our potential.  There is, however, one area where it is not too late and where we have the chance to get it right – the deep sea.  This report lays out the issues and suggests a responsible way forward.

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INFOGRAPHICS

ECOSYSTEMS

MINERALS

GOVERNANCE

THE WAY FORWARD

The Gallifrey Foundation developed Plastic Free Campus to mobilise student action on single-use plastics consumption and create change at four levels: in the school, at home, at school events and in the community. The self-directed programme is available online and is free of charge.  The “PFC” programme is now available in multiple languages.

Now introducing a companion programme using the same pedagogical process, Carbon-free Campus gives schools and students the tools to assess their carbon footprint and to take tangible action to reduce this

JUDGING 6 ENTRIES FROM ECO PROTECT

Judging by Antoinette Vermilye, co-founder Gallifrey Foundation – April 2026

First place: Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier – Sophie Nicole Gregory

This was as standout piece. Most reports will look at the next level connections but looking at the deeper less talked about – but FUNDAMENTAL connections is imperative for deep indepth reporting. Connecting climate change to piracy via socioeconomics is fresh and underexplored (Both the $339-413m ransom figure and the climate-piracy link is academically grounded).

Second place:  Swimming in Sewage – Maddie Herbert

Third place – tie
Deep-Sea Mining: A Wild Wild West – Ray Lee

Call of Silence – Andy Doku

Runners up:
Maritime Security and Piracy – Marcus Ware

Is the law doing enough to protect orcas – Kamila Kurbanova

EcoProtect is a project at the University of Nottingham Pro Bono Society. This is a new project that began in the academic year of 2025-2026 and is both run by students and made up of all student members. Whilst typically the University of Nottingham Pro Bono Society is made up of undergraduate students with an interest in law, our project is inclusive of members from a variety of degree backgrounds including politics and environmental science. The aim of the project is to spread awareness through blog writing on a variety of topical environmental and animal justice issues, both domestically and internationally, with a specific focus on governmental policy.

As part of our final wave of blogs for this academic year, we decided to host an ocean-themed blog writing competition, partnering with Gallifrey Foundation. Gallifrey Foundation had previously provided us with inspiration for many of our blog topics, so this collaboration seemed like a great way to close out our year. The student writers all chose their own specific topics and independently planned and produced their blogs. The strongest performers in the competition were also awarded Ecoswap gift cards as prizes, in recognition of the high-quality piece they had produced and the hard work they put in.

Plastic has penetrated everyday life: from clothing to coatings and from transport vehicles to cleaning products. The disadvantages of plastics however are becoming more and more visible. Large quantities of plastics leak into rivers and oceans, with adverse effects to marine ecosystems and related economic activities

Plastic wastes include all size residues, from large visible and easily removable items, to small invisible particles. This report investigates the sources of primary microplastics; i.e. microplastics that are directly released into the environment as small plastic particles (< 5 mm size).

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POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants), such as pesticides and PCBs that bind with micro-plastics, are ingested by marine organisms and accumulate up the food chain.  This process, known as bioaccumulation or biomagnification, can also affect humans.

Some plastics used in food and drink packaging contain endocrine disruptors that leach into food and drink and are a potential time bomb. Already we are seeing direct consequences of certain additives and plasticisers on fertility and early pubescence.

These are urgent public health issues.
Please see more in the excellent report by CIEL.

INFOGRAPHICS  Available in three layouts and 2 digital formats, PDF and PNG:

HOW PLASTICS AFFECT US – WHAT CAN YOU DO?

HOW AND WHAT PDF                                       HOW AND WHAT PNG

ONE SUBJECT PER INFOGRAPHIC

1 EXTRACTION PDF                                           1 EXTRACTION PNG

2 MANUFACTURE PDF                                      2 MANUFACTURE PNG

3 CONSUMPTION PDF                                       3 CONSUMPTION PNG

4 WASTE PDF                                                        4 WASTE PNG

ALL SUBJECTS ON ONE A3 INFOGRAPHIC – DIFFERENT COLOURS W/FOOTNOTES

A3 PORTRAIT TRANSPARENT PDF               A3 PORTRAIT TRANSPARENT PNG

A3 PORTRAIT SKY BLUE PDF                          A3 PORTRAIT SKY BLUE PNG

A3 PORTRAIT BLUE PDF                                    A3 PORTRAIT BLUE PNG

A3 PORTRAIT GREEN PDF                                 A3 PORTRAIT GREEN PNG

A3 PORTRAIT ORANGE PDF                              A3 PORTRAIT ORANGE PNG

ALL SUBJECTS ON ONE SCROLLING INFOGRAPHIC 

LANDSCAPE SCROLLING PDF                           LANDSCAPE SCROLLING PNG

PORTRAIT SCROLLING PDF                               PORTRAIT SCROLLING PNG

The Gallifrey Foundation engaged PCI Media Impact to create a new comic series based on SDG Goal 14 – Life Below Water and distributed via Ministries of Education this project is helping to raise the profile of this issue in national curricula and encourage action to reduce marine debris. Behaviour change at a young age can instil habits and a sense of environmental citizenship for life.

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Poseidon Patrol – the original

Poseidon Patrol – Reef Riders

www.comicsunitingnations.org
If you are interested in printer-ready versions of the comics, please write to: info@mediaimpact.org Poseidon Patrol – SDG 14.

ARTIFICIAL/SYNTHETIC TURF

A Health, Environmental & Economic Hazard

GAZON ARTIFICIEL / SYNTHÉTIQUE

Un danger pour la santé, l’environnement et l’économie

Deep Sea Mining

To lay out the issues and suggest a responsible way forward the Gallifrey Foundation has produced in collaboration with the IUCN “Deep seabed mining – A rising environmental challenge”.

INFOGRAPHICS

Plastic Free Campus

Plastic Free Campus has been developed to mobilise student action on single-use plastics consumption. The self-directed programme is available online.

Primary Micro-Plastics in the Oceans

Plastic wastes include all size residues, from large visible and easily removable items, to small invisible particles. This report investigates the sources of primary microplastics; i.e. microplastics that are directly released into the environment as small plastic particles (< 5 mm size).

Marine Education – Comic Books

A comic book series based on SDG Goal 14 – Life Below Water distributed via Ministries of Education to raise the profile of these issues in national curricula and encourage action to reduce marine debris. Behaviour change at a young age can instil habits and a sense of environmental citizenship for life.

DOWNLOAD IN YOUR LANGUAGE

Poseidon Patrol – the original

Poseidon Patrol – Reef Riders

www.comicsunitingnations.org

If you are interested in printer-ready versions of the comics, please write to: info@mediaimpact.org Poseidon Patrol – SDG 14.

SEA FEVER E-Book

The greatest danger to the oceans is not pollution, acidification or overfishing but the ignorance and apathy that allows these incidents to occur in the first place. To promote a better understanding of the oceans’ importance, the Foundation commissioned Sea Fever – People and their Ocean Planet.

Plastics Pollution – Azores 2016

Follow-up Report 2018

The Gallifrey Foundation funded the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) research project. Establishing a Baseline on Marine Litter in the Azores – AZORLIT in collaboration with IMAR Center of the University of the Azores, the Observatory of the Azores (OMA and the Regional Directorate for Maritime Affairs (DGRAM).

Plastic Pollution – Health Issues Infographics

INFOGRAPHICS
Available in three layouts and two digital formats, PDF and PNG:

HOW PLASTICS AFFECT US – WHAT CAN YOU DO?

HOW AND WHAT PDF                                       HOW AND WHAT PNG

ONE SUBJECT PER INFOGRAPHIC

1 EXTRACTION PDF                                           1 EXTRACTION PNG

2 MANUFACTURE PDF                                      2 MANUFACTURE PNG

3 CONSUMPTION PDF                                       3 CONSUMPTION PNG

4 WASTE PDF                                                        4 WASTE PNG

ALL SUBJECTS ON ONE A3 INFOGRAPHIC – DIFFERENT COLOURS W/FOOTNOTES

A3 PORTRAIT TRANSPARENT PDF               A3 PORTRAIT TRANSPARENT PNG

A3 PORTRAIT SKY BLUE PDF                          A3 PORTRAIT SKY BLUE PNG

A3 PORTRAIT BLUE PDF                                    A3 PORTRAIT BLUE PNG

A3 PORTRAIT GREEN PDF                                 A3 PORTRAIT GREEN PNG

A3 PORTRAIT ORANGE PDF                              A3 PORTRAIT ORANGE PNG

ALL SUBJECTS ON ONE SCROLLING INFOGRAPHIC 

LANDSCAPE SCROLLING PDF                           LANDSCAPE SCROLLING PNG

PORTRAIT SCROLLING PDF                               PORTRAIT SCROLLING PNG

ARTIFICIAL/SYNTHETIC TURF

A Health, Environmental & Economic Hazard

Report in ENGLISH

GAZON ARTIFICIEL / SYNTHÉTIQUE

Un danger pour la santé, l’environnement et l’économie

Rapport en français

Tyre Particles

Following on from the Gallifrey sponsored Primary Microplastics in the Oceans report for the IUCN, the project is to reduce microplastic particles in the environment by establishing tyre abrasion standards.

Sea Fever – E Book

The greatest danger to the oceans is not pollution, acidification or overfishing but the ignorance and apathy that allows these incidents to occur in the first place. To promote a better understanding of the oceans’ importance, the Foundation commissioned Sea Fever – People and their Ocean Planet.

Written by the Foundation’s Advisor on Marine Programs, Dr. Luc Cuyvers, Sea Fever – People and their Ocean Planet examines how we have used (and sometimes abused) the ocean throughout the centuries.

Plastics Pollution – AZORLIT

The Gallifrey Foundation funded the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) research project. Establishing a Baseline on Marine Litter in the Azores – AZORLIT in collaboration with IMAR Center of the University of the Azores, the Observatory of the Azores (OMA and the Regional Directorate for Maritime Affairs (DGRAM).  Completed in 2016 a follow-up report was produced in 2018.

Plastics Pollution – Maldives

The Gallifrey Foundation has collaborated with IUCN Maldives to carry out a local Reef Guardian project, a community-oriented project to encourage sustainable reef behaviour. Working with the Maldivian Ministry of Education, changes to the national curriculum are being proposed in order to better institutionalize education on this topic and encourage youth-led action.

Plastics Pollution – Jordan

The Gallifrey Foundation worked with Experience Jordan to develop plastic free hikes on the Jordan Trail. This has required rethinking how meals and water are sourced and delivered along this multi-day hike. Hikers have been encouraged to collect trash along the way.

As much as this may seem counter-intuitive, limiting plastic waste, even in the desert, makes sense because over the centuries as these materials break down into smaller and smaller pieces they will be flushed from the wadis and streams eventually into the sea. “Pick up a piece of litter in the desert and save a fish”.