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Deep Dive into Blue Carbon, Coastal Resilience, and Ocean Finance
Chip Cunliffe, Climate Links
For the uninitiated, what are the most important things for people to know about blue carbon?
Coastal ecosystems–for example, saltmarshes, seagrass meadows, and, most famously, mangroves–store many tonnes of carbon in their biomass and the soil beneath them. These coastal blue carbon ecosystems sequester up to five times more carbon than terrestrial forests; as of 2021, the value of the carbon stored in these ecosystems contributes $190 billion to global wealth each year.
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