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Climate action requires new accounting guidance and governance frameworks to manage carbon in shelf seas

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  • Tiziana Luisetti

    (Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (Cefas))

  • Silvia Ferrini

    (University of East Anglia)

  • Gaetano Grilli

    (Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)
    CSERGE, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park)

  • Timothy D. Jickells

    (University of East Anglia)

  • Hilary Kennedy

    (Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences)

  • Silke Kröger

    (Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (Cefas))

  • Irene Lorenzoni

    (University of East Anglia)

  • Ben Milligan

    (University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law)

  • Johan Molen

    (NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University)

  • Ruth Parker

    (Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (Cefas))

  • Tim Pryce

    (Carbon Trust)

  • R. Kerry Turner

    (University of East Anglia)

  • Emmanouil Tyllianakis

    (Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)
    Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds)

Abstract

Accounting guidelines exist for the recording of carbon flows in terrestrial and coastal ecosystems. Shelf sea sediments, while considered an important carbon store, have yet to receive comparable scrutiny. Here, we explore whether effective management of carbon stocks accumulating in shelf seas could contribute towards a nation’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. We review the complexities of carbon transport and fate in shelf seas, and the geopolitical challenges of carbon accounting in climate governance because of the transboundary nature of carbon flows in the marine environment. New international accounting guidance and governance frameworks are needed to prompt climate action.

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  • Tiziana Luisetti & Silvia Ferrini & Gaetano Grilli & Timothy D. Jickells & Hilary Kennedy & Silke Kröger & Irene Lorenzoni & Ben Milligan & Johan Molen & Ruth Parker & Tim Pryce & R. Kerry Turner & Em, 2020. "Climate action requires new accounting guidance and governance frameworks to manage carbon in shelf seas," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-18242-w
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18242-w
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