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Credit to blue carbon: harnessing the ocean’s investment power
Chris Gorell Barnes, World Ocean Initiative Energy Solutions
On land, the carcass of a dead elephant releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But when a whale dies, the carbon from its body sinks to the bottom of the ocean to become stored as “blue carbon”. Right there is a natural carbon-capture mechanism that is crucial to mitigating the climate crisis. Indeed, more than 80% of the world’s carbon is circulating through the ocean.
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