blue carbon
"Blue Carbon" and marine wetlands: New guidelines, methodology
09/06/11 10:10
Blue carbon is the term of art for a movement to store carbon that has been removed from the atmosphere in wetlands sediments. The idea is simple, largely borrowed from the forest carbon movement (often called REDD or REDD+ or even RED++). In a perfect world, using ecosystems to store carbon is an elegant solution to combine climate change mitigation (greenhouse gas atmospheric concentration) and climate change adaptation (managing responses to climate change impacts) approaches. You could save species, ecosystems, and often livelihoods and communities by protecting natural carbon storage mechanisms. But the issue is complicated and associated with a lot of specialized language. And because the climate is shifting and ecosystems are evolving in response, there are likely to be complicated feedback mechanisms that might end up damaging those pools of carbon and releasing greenhouse gases you thought had been locked up. And in effect your storage system might have made the global problem worse.
Thus, although the Ramsar Convention (see below) and IUCN have just put together a methodology for supporting blue carbon storage and sequestration, the technical aspects are far from settled. Read More...
Thus, although the Ramsar Convention (see below) and IUCN have just put together a methodology for supporting blue carbon storage and sequestration, the technical aspects are far from settled. Read More...
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