Africa: Ocean's Ability to Absorb Carbon Is Weakening As Climate Change Intensifies, UN Warns
The report urges stronger ocean monitoring, blue carbon restoration and careful research into carbon removal as vulnerable island states face rising climate risks.
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The ocean loses capacity to absorb CO2: the UN calculates a drop of close to 6%, thus weakening one of the great defenses against warming.
Africa: Ocean's Ability to Absorb Carbon Is Weakening As Climate Change Intensifies, UN Warns
The ocean absorbs around 30 per cent of human-caused carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and 90 per cent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. But climate change has already reduced its capacity to absorb carbon by approximately six per cent, a new UN report warns ahead of the COP31 climate conference in November.
The ocean’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) decreased by about 6 percent because of global warming, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. If it loses that capacity, a greater [...] The Ocean office loses almost 6 percent of its ability to catch CO2: UN first appeared on Contraline.
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Global Diaspora NewsOcean’s ability to absorb carbon is weakening as climate change intensifies, UN warns
The ocean absorbs around 30 per cent of human-caused carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and 90 per cent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. But climate change has already reduced its capacity to absorb carbon by approximately six per cent, a new UN report warns ahead of the COP31 climate conference in November.
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