Dear Sufia and RG Fellows,

we have to be careful because with the excuse that the coast and the sea have seized carbon in a carbon sink some politicians might emit carbon credits to allow companies to pollute freely on land or in the sea through oil platforms or pipelines.

Best regards

Co2 stored in oceans, shelfs, marshes and of course in plants in seas, rivers etc.

I hope it will permanently remain stored.

CO2

Blue Carbon is the carbon stored by coastal and ocean

ecosystems. In particular, coastal ecosystems such as

tidal marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses remove carbon

from the atmosphere and ocean, storing it in plants and

depositing it in the sediment below them by natural

processes. These coastal ecosystems are very efficient

at sequestering and storing carbon - each square mile of

these systems can remove carbon from the atmosphere

and oceans at rates higher than each square mile of

mature tropical forests. Furthermore, coastal ecosystems

have been found to store huge quantities of carbon in

organic rich sediments - up to 5 times more carbon than

many temperate and tropical forests. These ecosystems

are found in all continents, except Antarctica.

http://www.marineclimatechange.com/marineclimatechange/bluecarbon_BrusselsPolicy_files/BlueCarbon_COMPRESSED.pdf

Dear Sufia and RG Fellows,

we have to be careful because with the excuse that the coast and the sea have seized carbon in a carbon sink some politicians might emit carbon credits to allow companies to pollute freely on land or in the sea through oil platforms or pipelines.

Best regards

Blue carbon is the carbon stored and sequestered in coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests, seagrass meadows or intertidal saltmarshes. These valuable ecosystems hold vast carbon reservoirs; they sequester atmospheric CO2 through primary production, and then deposit it in their sediments. In fact, most blue carbon is found in the soils or sediments beneath the vegetation.

The problem: The growing emission of carbon dioxide from a wide range of human activities is causing unprecedented changes to the land and sea. Identifying effective, efficient and politically acceptable approaches to reduce the atmospheric concentration of CO2 is one of society’s most pressing goals.

One of the most promising new ideas to reduce atmospheric CO2 and limit global climate change is to do so by conserving mangroves, seagrasses and salt marsh grasses. Such coastal vegetation, dubbed “blue carbon”, sequesters carbon far more effectively (up to 100 times faster) and more permanently than terrestrial forests.

Site:

http://www.thebluecarbonproject.com/the-problem-2/

I may be only informed, but unable to give an opinion for the lack of an adequate background.

Thnxs to all