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“In a world first, Japan's most recent annual Greenhouse Gas Inventory, provided to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) this month, factored the carbon absorbed by seagrass and seaweed beds into its calculations.” Meadows of Knowledge, a 2021 project to map seagrass in West Africa by ResilienSea measured seagrass stocks from Senegal to Sierra Leone. Unfortunately Liberia, with its high level of marine biodiversity, was not part of the pilot. However, it is clear that carbon capture in coastal ecosystems, though less well-understood, provide huge benefits in the fight against climate change.

Science is clear - Forests are at the heart of #climate solutions. ✓ IPCC stated in 2018 that forest conservation and restoration was crucial in the fight against climate change and suggested an increase of 1billion hectares forest cover by 2050. ✓ A New study of the Crowther Lab | ETH Zurich shows that : 🌱#Forests have the potential to capture 226 Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon in areas where they would naturally exist. This forest potential, however, can only be achieved alongside emissions cuts. 🌿61% of the forest potential can be achieved by protecting existing forests and allowing them to regrow to maturity. While 39% can be achieved by reconnecting fragmented landscapes through community-driven ecosystem restoration and management. Last but not least, a natural diversity of species is needed to maximize the forest carbon potential. 🌳#Biodiversity — or the variety of plants and animals in a specific area – accounts for approximately 50% of the forest’s climate impacts. https://lnkd.in/eKRsgw2F https://lnkd.in/euysScZu

As COP28 approaches, I can only continue to emphasise how important it is that we recognise how critical the protection and sustainable management of existing, natural, biodiversity-rich habitats such as forests (but also marine systems, grasslands, wetlands etc..) are to meeting our climate ambitions. It is of course only one part of the equation, but the contribution of nature to stabilising our climate for the benefit of human societies is incalculably more than the 20 - 30% figure attributed to it in terms of emissions reductions. The wider significance and importance of large, intact and resilient ecosystems is found in their cultural, structural and ecosystem provision characteristics, something that DAC / CCS projects will never capture. #everythingeverywhereallatonce

Carbon market could change Amazon’s fate, study shows https://lnkd.in/gpag9H5Z #climate #brazil #Carbon  #Carbonmarket Climate Policy Initiative

The oceans and coasts are the Earth’s climate regulators. Covering 72 percent of the planet’s surface, they have absorbed around 40 percent of carbon emitted by human activities since 1850.1 Coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows act as deep carbon reservoirs, while marine ecosystems absorb and sequester greenhouse gases (GHG) through the carbon cycle. The bad news for humankind is that both oceans and coasts are under pressure, amid atmospheric and marine warming, habitat destruction, pollution, and the impacts of overfishing and industrial activity. These destructive factors are undermining the role of oceanic systems in slowing climate change. As global citizens of a the global village, it is imperative that COP 28, helps to encourage solutions with a time table of actions that needs implementation for this global phenomena of global warming which affects all nations.

At least one should read it... When watching the news and see what is going on in terms of climate change reporting I would like a more balanced approach. Especially the much more important biodiversity crisis is nowhere to be seen in the media anymore. All you see is CO2...a gas that is not poisonous but instead is the food for all plants. More potent GHGs are not mentioned anymore either, why is that? #climate #biodiversity #populism

🌎 For the atmosphere’s balance sheet, emission reductions and removals are equivalent. Both are vitally important. 🌲 A recent peer-reviewed study in Nature Climate Change reinforces this point, finding that the four pathways with the highest scientific confidence and the largest potential scale of global impact are tropical forest reforestation, tropical forest avoided loss, temperate forest reforestation and temperate forest avoided loss. In other words, reforestation (removals) and avoided loss (reductions) are both critical climate actions. https://lnkd.in/dnWxRz4B

A recent study published in Nature highlights the immense potential of global forests to draw down carbon and combat climate change. With an estimated 226 Gt of carbon absorption capacity, reforestation emerges as one of the most promising solutions to close the carbon gap. It needs to be a key component of our climate action policies. Read more: https://hubs.la/Q02gDGBH0 #ForestCarbon #ClimateAction #Reforestation #WhoWillSpeakForTheTrees

The unfortunate reality is that reducing emissions alone will not be sufficient to solve the climate crisis. Extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere through carbon capture will have to play a central role in the solution.

The misuse of #carbon_removal #strategies in climate policy, particularly the overestimation and implementation challenges projects like the AFR100 initiative in Africa. The discrepancy between the #pledged #reforestation areas and the actual feasible land, emphasizing the risk of damaging intact ecosystems and the reliance on unproven technologies like #biomass combustion with #carbon_capture and direct air capture. Such strategies might not achieve the anticipated scale and could detract from the urgent need for direct emissions reductions, while also potentially causing #ecological and #socio-economic issues.