Blue Carbon Protection and Development Trend in the Context of Carbon Neutrality and China's Response
Blue carbon protection and development is one of the important ways of realizing carbon neutrality as it has a much stronger carbon capture and storage capacity than traditional green carbon sinks.With a superior blue carbon resource endowment,China has greater potential for blue carbon mining and broad prospects for development and utilization.At present,global blue carbon protection and development are confronting challenges such as serious degradation of the blue carbon ecosystem and lack of carbon trading system,and China has problems including numerous crises of the blue carbon ecosystem,incomplete blue carbon monitoring and accounting system,imperfect blue carbon trading system,and lack of mature legal protection.From the practice of the international community,blue carbon sink has already transferred from the scientific research concept stage to the practical tool stage,and incorporating blue carbon into climate change laws and frameworks in the future will be an inevitable step to improve the global climate governance system.From the perspective of domestic practice,China's relevant researches on blue carbon have gradually shifted from following to leading,and various domestic policy pilots are also advancing in an orderly manner.In the face of the development situation of blue carbon at home and abroad,China must make responses in multiple aspects such as value,technology,system and legislation.As an inevitable step to grasp the development opportunity of blue carbon,it is critical to dig in the potential of blue carbon resources for carbon sequestration and sink.
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