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Coral Reefs

Coastal Wetlands

Coastal System

Inland Wetlands

Tropical Forests

Rivers and lakes

Temperate Forests

Grasslands

Woodlands

Open Ocean

Mangroves

Seagrasses

ABOVE GROUND

BELOW GROUND

Salt marshes

Blue Carbon ecosystems provide a highly valuable service

by sequestering and storing atmospheric carbon

Different ecosystems absorb CO

2

from the atmosphere at different

rates. Coastal ecosystems have a

very high sequestration rate

The carbon sequestered is then

stored in the living biomass of

plants, its above ground part

The largest amount of carbon is

stored by the plants in the soil,

below the ground level

Visit

abudhabi.bluecarbonportal.org

to

find out more about Blue Carbon

resource in Abu Dhabi.

Organic carbon stored

Tons of Carbonper Km

2

Ecosystem service value

Thousand US Dollars per hectare per year

205 000

100 000

50 000

10 000

1 000

Sources: Schile, L.,

etal

., in preparation, Carbon stocks in arid coastal environments.

For submission into

Ecosystems

; Murray, B., C., et al., Green Payments for Blue

Carbon Economic Incentives for ProtectingThreatened Coastal Habitats, Nikolas

Institute, Duke University, 2011.

RICCARDOPRAVETTONI/GRID-Arendal2013

Higher estimate

Lower estimate