Euro-Tory Wants Money For Blue Carbon
Struan Stevenson: Blue carbon is key to fighting climate change - Cartoon - Scotsman.com
...An international conference kicks off in Brussels this week looking at how we can put in place the building blocks for a thriving global blue carbon system. It will look at practical ways in which we can reduce the rate of marine and coastal ecosystem degradation. That means carbon credits for CO2 sequestered in blue carbon sinks must be traded, just as they are with green carbon, while a global blue carbon fund to pay for the protection and enhancement of remaining marine ecosystems must be established.
Blue carbon lies at the very heart of the global warming debate. Over the past 70 years we have lost around 20 per cent of the habitats that play this vital role in CO2 reduction. That trend has to be reversed. Our survival depends on it.
• Struan Stevenson is a Conservative Euro MP for Scotland and President of the European Parliament’s Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development Intergroup
I'm a little confused how we have lost 20% of the oceans where CO2 dissolves in to the water, becoming Blue Carbon, or how we trade this, maybe afte I have watched some Alka-Seltzer bubbles all will become clear.