SE Asia’s protected areas hold climate value, but we’re not using it

SINGAPORE – Across Southeast Asia’s coastlines, nature is quietly delivering climate action at a scale we have yet to appreciate fully. Mangroves and seagrasses, frequently overshadowed by tropical rainforests, capture carbon at roughly twice the rate of their terrestrial counterparts. The Indo-Pacific hosts 37 percent of the world’s mangroves and 23 percent of its seagrasses – global climate assets of extraordinary importance.  When left intact, this “blue carbon” remains stored for millennia, making these ecosystems some of the most effective natural climate solutions we have. READ: How Asean can contribute to climate action Yet Asean’s vast blue carbon wealth remains largely unrecognized, undervalued and […]... Keep on reading: SE Asia’s protected areas hold climate value, but we’re not using it

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