Potential of blue carbon for global climate mitigation | oeko.de
https://www.oeko.de/publikation/potential-of-blue-carbon-for-global-climate-mitigation/Achieving climate neutrality primarily requires reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, in addition it requires measures to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and storing the carbon in the long term to balance the unavoidable residual emissions. A key measure available for countries to achieve this is to maintain and enlarge natural carbon sinks. In this respect, measures to protect and restore coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes are attracting growing attention because they are important natural marine carbon sinks and store a lot of carbon per unit area in their sediments. Therefore, they are often referred to as „blue carbon ecosystems” (BCE). Although the term “blue carbon” (BC) is not yet uniformly defined, it is becoming more and more prominent in international climate policy and is being discussed in the context of the (voluntary) carbon market, among other things. This study provides an overview of the use of the term BC in scientific literature and in
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