By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Credits An enormous project to preserve a mangrove forest on the Caribbean coast of Colombia is a go, with the Apple-funded project getting verified carbon credits for 7,646 hectares of mangrove forest. This is the first time that the carbon stored in the underwater soils of mangroves has been priced in, and is the first to be linked to preserving mangroves rather than restoring them. While carbon credits are fraught, mangrove preservation is a bit cleaner; they hold more carbon per hectare than terrestrial forests, they can’t be burned down in a wildfire the same way a landlubbing forest can, and unlike the onshore forests, about 60 percent of their carbon is in the soils.
Numlock News: May 10, 2021 • Summer Jobs, Blinding Lights, Swimming Pools
Numlock News: May 10, 2021 • Summer Jobs…
Numlock News: May 10, 2021 • Summer Jobs, Blinding Lights, Swimming Pools
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Credits An enormous project to preserve a mangrove forest on the Caribbean coast of Colombia is a go, with the Apple-funded project getting verified carbon credits for 7,646 hectares of mangrove forest. This is the first time that the carbon stored in the underwater soils of mangroves has been priced in, and is the first to be linked to preserving mangroves rather than restoring them. While carbon credits are fraught, mangrove preservation is a bit cleaner; they hold more carbon per hectare than terrestrial forests, they can’t be burned down in a wildfire the same way a landlubbing forest can, and unlike the onshore forests, about 60 percent of their carbon is in the soils.