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

Luisetti, Tiziana, Ferrini, Silvia, Grilli, Gaetano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-167X, Jickells, Timothy D., Kennedy, Hilary, Kroger, Silke, Lorenzoni, Irene, Milligan, Ben, Van Der Molen, Johan, Parker, Ruth, Pryce, Tim, Turner, R. Kerry and Tyllianakis, Emmanouil (2020) Climate action requires new accounting guidance and governance frameworks to manage carbon in shelf seas. Nature Communications, 11 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 14 - life below water,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine Knowledge Exchange Network
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?... http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-02...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2020 00:07
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2023 06:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76973
DOI:	10.1038/s41467-020-18242-w

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