Shopping 5 Remove Carbon
By focusing on the restoration of mangrove forests, the Climate Positive Carbon Footprint Program mobilizes one of the world’s most effective natural means of combating global warming. Mangroves store more carbon per unit area than any other ecosystem on Earth. They’re vital entities that capture and stockpile quantities of “blue” carbon in both the bodies of the plant and the sediment beneath them.
Compare mangrove forests to terrestrial ones: Studies that mangroves sequester 2-5 times the CO2 equivalent of a mature tropical rain- forest . Plus, when terrestrial trees die, the carbon stored in trunks and branches will be released, however, as mangroves store most of the carbon in their soil and sediment the carbon may stay put for millennia .
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