Sustainably developing global blue carbon for climate change mitigation and economic benefits through international cooperation.

ABSTRACT: Blue carbon is the carbon storage in vegetated coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrass. It is gaining global attention as its role in climate change mitigation and local welfare growth. However, a global assessment on the long-term spatiotemporal sustainable development status of blue carbon has not been conducted, and the relations among blue carbon ecosystems, driving forces for climate change mitigation, and socioeconomic interventions for development capacity on a global scale are still unclear. Here, we constructed a blue carbon development index (BCDI), comprising three subsystems: driving force, resource endowment, and development capacity, to assess the sustainable development level of 136 coastal countries' blue carbon over 24 consecutive years and explore

SUBMITTER: Feng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10545692 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature