Blue carbon
Subtitle: the role of healthy oceans in binding carbon : a rapid response assessment
By: editor-in chief, Christian Nellemann ... [et al.].
Contributors: GRID--Arendal
Publisher: GRID-Arendal
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Arendal, [Norway]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9788277010601
Subjects: Coastal zone management; Seawater; Carbon sequestration; Environmental aspects; Carbon dioxide content
Description: This report explores the potential for mitigating the impacts of climate change by improved management and protection of marine ecosystems and especially the vegetated coastal habitat, or blue carbon sinks. The objective of this report is to highlight the critical role of the oceans and ocean ecosystems in maintaining our climate and in assisting policy makers to mainstream an oceans agenda into national and international climate change initiatives. While emissions' reductions are currently at the center of the climate change discussions, the critical role of the oceans and ocean ecosystems has been vastly overlooked.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "An inter-agency collaboration between UNEP, FAO and IOC/UNESCO".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-78).

Also freely available online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Emissions and the sequestration : the binding of carbon; title: Blue planet : oceans and climate; title: Blue carbon : the role of oceans and carbon sinks; title: The world's ocean carbon sinks in rapid decline; title: Oceans' blue carbon sinks and human wellbeing; title: Ecosystem based adaptation and mitigation; title: Policy options.