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T1 Blue carbon: the role of healthy oceans in binding carbon
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 carbon
K1 coastal ecosystem
K1 emission
K1 climate change
K1 ocean
K1 ecosystem
K1 policy
PB United Nations Environment Programme
SN 978-82-7701-060-1
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7772
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7772
NO 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 centre of the climate change discussions, the critical role of the oceans and ocean ecosystems has been vastly overlooked.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 19, 2026