The rapid industrialization and urbanization in recent times has altered the climate of the planet Earth. The abrupt hike in the level of GHG has not only affected the temperature, rainfall pattern, humidity, snowfall etc., but at the same time, the biodiversity has also been impacted to a great extent. It is now the right time to develop a register for carbon sequestration activity series by coastal vegetation. In several conferences and conventions, the terrestrial forest vegetation is given priority for studying carbon sequestration. The blue carbon vertical, which basically includes the stored carbon in seaweeds, tidal marshes, mangroves and seagrass meadows, has not yet been emphasized as the potential sink of CO,. Although blue carbon was not included as a separate item on the agenda for SBSTA 35 at the COP 17 meetings in Durban in December 2011, the report from SBSTA 35 invited parties and organizations “to provide information on the technical and scientific aspects of emissions by sources, removals by sinks, and reserving all Green House Gases, including emission and removals from coastal and marine ecosystems, such as mangroves, tidal salt marshes, wetlands and seagrass meadows” [1]. This topic was given stress at SBSTA 36 in May 2012 in Bonn. The submission from a number of members of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN), forwarded the view that sufficient time should be dedicated for discussing “emissions and removals from coastal and marine ecosystems, such as mangroves, tidal salt marshes, and seagrass meadows,” and that it should be considered a theme of the SBSTA 36 Research Dialogue. They also called for a workshop on Coastal Marine Ecosystems to be held in Honduras before SBSTA 37 (at COP 18 in Doha), in order to provide information to support the UNFCCC process, and requested that SBSTA invite the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to start a work program “aimed at quantifying the role of coastal marine ecosystems on global atmospheric fluxes of greenhouse gases.” Lastly, CfRN stated that SBSTA should address “the contribution of networks for the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by sources, removals by sinks and reservoirs of coastal and marine ecosystems, such as mangroves, tidal salt marshes and seagrass meadows”.
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