Mangroves
It’s becoming clear that blue carbon – CO2 stored in lakes and oceans – is more promising for carbon sequestration than land-based natural climate solutions like tropical forests. One particularly productive source of blue carbon is the protection and restoration of coastal mangrove forests. Conservation International is working with Apple to preserve a 27,000-acre mangrove forest in Colombia and P&G to safeguard 110,000 acres of forest in the Philippines. Besides storing a lot of carbon (4-10 times more than terrestrial forests), mangroves have the advantage that they are less likely to be destroyed through forest fires or logged for timber.
— Wayne Visser
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