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Op-ed July 27th 2022

Climate change: why we can’t rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions

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Read the related scientific paper published on July 28 in Frontiers in Climate

    We are researchers who study how marine life, chemistry and the climate interact, and after examining the processes by which coastal habitats draw down (and release) planet-warming gases, we’re not convinced. Whether the climate benefits from restoring these habitats – by planting mangrove trees, for example – is far from certain, and there’s a real risk that the scale at which they can mitigate emissions has been massively oversold[...]

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    • Ocean
    • Climate
    • Carbon neutrality

    Authors

    Phillip Williamson

    NERC & University of East Anglia

    Jean Pierre Gattuso

    Jean-Pierre Gattuso

    Ocean Scientist, Associate Researcher at IDDRI

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