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Climate change: why we can't rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions

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par Phil Williamson, Honorary Reader, University of East Anglia
Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Research Professor, CNRS, Iddri, Sorbonne Université

Removing several hundred billion tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere is now considered necessary to avert the worst effects of climate change. Using nature to help achieve that goal, by allowing habitats to regenerate, would seem to offer a win-win solution for the environment and the climate.

The sediments beneath mangrove forests, saltmarshes and seagrass meadows are rich…

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