Ghana’s coastal ecosystems are key to combating climate change. The report "Ghana: A Blue Carbon Readiness Assessment" ...

“Blue carbon” is the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems. These ecosystems include everything from mangroves to seagrass beds and salt marshes. The World Bank's first-of-its-kind blue ...

but their prevalence of growing on hard substrata means that they have limited capacity to act as long-term carbon sinks. Unlike other coastal blue carbon habitats such as seagrasses, saltmarshes and ...

Blue carbon ecosystems, such as mangroves and sea grasses, are emerging as critical players in global climate mitigation strategies. However, these ecosystems face mounting challenges due to coastal ...

PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Coastal Xiangshan county in Zhejiang province has turned to blue carbon trading to use the power of the market to mitigate carbon emissions and make a profit. Zhu Wenrong ...

"Although coastal engineering is very expensive, coastal blue carbon is probably about the lowest cost option that we've got," said Prof Stephen Pacala, from Princeton University, who chaired the ...

Contribute to the conservation of coastal ecosystems and mitigation of global warming through blue carbon ! Elucidation of blue carbon dynamics and assessment of ecosystem services based on new ...

That provides a better comparison between carbon storage by krill and by “blue carbon habitats” of rich coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves, seagrass and salt marshes—which can also store ...

Seagrass meadows have an important climate protection function due to their long-term carbon storage potential. An ...

Serina Wittyngham led the study as a postdoctoral researcher working in the lab of co-author Matt Kirwan, coastal geologist and professor at the Batten School & VIMS. She notes that blue carbon ...