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Mar 20, 2024 · Directed by Emmy® and BAFTA-winning director Nicolas Brown, Blue Carbon follows the global journey of Jayda G as she investigates a powerful new ally in the battle to slow climate change:...
Jan 11, 2024 · Blue carbon projects are a multifaceted solution to address climate change and biodiversity crises while fostering sustainable development. Rooted in preserving coastal blue carbon ecosystems, these initiatives are crucial in carbon sequestration, climate resilience, and habitat protection.
Nov 21, 2023 · Blue Carbon is the term coined for carbon dioxide (CO2) stored in the world’s coastal and marine ecosystems such as mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses. It’s called “Blue” Carbon because of its proximity to the ocean: it is stored mostly in the soil and silt up to 6 meters under the seabed.
- Protecting and Leveraging Blue Carbon
- ‘A Nature-Based Solution’
- Legal and Social Considerations
- Next Steps
Scientists are exploring blue carbon in two main ways. First, they want to measure and preserve the carbon that’s already stored in the oceans and coastal wetlands, such as marshes and mangrove forests. Second, they want to know how we might leverage these ecosystems to mitigate climate change. Dorothy Peteet, a senior research scientist at NASA/Go...
For one of his current projects, Subramaniam is proposing what he calls “a nature-based solution” for carbon removal that takes Sargassum macroalgae and sinks it down to 2,000 meters below the ocean’s surface. Sargassum is a pelagic macroalgae, which means it spends its entire lifecycle on the surface of the ocean and is visible to the eye. “It’s n...
“I think there are a lot of unanswered scientific questions about the role of blue carbon in mitigating climate change,” said Webb, who spends a lot of her time considering the techniques that remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and the frameworks meant to ensure they occur in a safe and responsible way. But along with the scientif...
Webb and her colleagues at the Sabin Center are currently working on a book that examines these existing international and national legal frameworks, and how they apply to different ocean-based carbon removal activities. In addition to studying U.S. laws, they are also working with legal academics from six other countries (China, Canada, Germany, N...
Blue carbon is a concept within climate change mitigation that refers to "biologically driven carbon fluxes and storage in marine systems that are amenable to management". [2]: 2220 Most commonly, it refers to the role that tidal marshes, mangroves and seagrass meadows can play in carbon sequestration. [2]: 2220 These ecosystems can play an impo...
Mar 2, 2022 · The UpLink Blue Carbon Challenge sourced 12 innovative solutions to harness the potential of blue carbon markets to support conservation and restoration. Carbon stored in mangrove forests and seagrass beds has the potential to store five times as much carbon per square foot as terrestrial ecosystems.
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Sep 5, 2019 · The term Blue Carbon (BC) was first coined a decade ago to describe the disproportionately large contribution of coastal vegetated ecosystems to global carbon sequestration.
