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Mangrove forests can play a key role in meeting global climate targets by sequestering carbon, reducing flood risk and protecting water quality. While they only cover 0.7% of the world's.
Mangrove forests can play a key role in meeting global climate targets by sequestering carbon, reducing flood risk and protecting water quality. While they only cover 0.7% of the world's.
From preventing coastal flooding to filtering water, mangroves help the planet in multiple ways. But they're under threat from tourism, agriculture and more.
Colombias communities are protecting mangrove ecosystems through carbon financing and partnerships, setting a climate-positive model for conservation.
Understanding the Context
Investing in mangroves and mangrove-related projects offers businesses a strategic win that delivers impact in the global fight against climate change.
When mangrove tree roots, branches and leaves die they are usually covered by soil, which is then submerged under tidal water, slowing the breakdown of materials and boosting carbon.
These photos from the Mangrove Photography Awards reveal the plight, and protection efforts, of coastal communities that rely upon mangrove ecosystems for survival.
Mangroves could be a secret weapon in helping to turn the tide on climate change. Mangrove trees act as a carbon bank capturing four times more carbon than rainforests and locking.
Key Insights
Indonesia is working with local communities, government agencies and the World Bank to protect and restore its mangrove forests.
Mangroves are critical to the green transition. Yet for decades the food system has led to mangrove deforestation across the globe, with shrimp farming driving much of the destruction.
A marine restoration project has helped address a growing enviornmental challenge in Ecuador thorugh mangrove restoration and using repurposed sediments.
