Blue carbon solutions sequester a tremendous amount of CO2 and make up many of the Earth’s highest carbon sinks. Blue carbon helps to fight against coastal sea level rise, reduce the impacts from severe storms and provide habitats for fisheries while acting as carbon sinks!
What is blue carbon? It is the natural process by which biological carbon is captured by animals and plants living in or near the oceans. Did you know that blue carbon makes up more than half of the worlds biological carbon? Also, mangrove forests can store up to four times more carbon than a tropical rainforest and seagrass meadows can store nearly 20 gigatons of carbon worldwide!
Check out this article for more amazing facts about the benefits of blue carbon and the need to implement these solutions into mitigation strategies and recognize the important role the oceans have in reversing climate change!
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