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UNESCO reveals largest carbon stores found in Australian World Heritage Sites


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Australia s marine World Heritage Sites are among the world s largest stores of carbon dioxide according to a new report from the United Nations, co-authored by an ECU marine science expert.
The UNESCO report found Australia s six marine World Heritage Sites hold 40 per cent of the estimated 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide stored in mangrove, seagrass and tidal marsh ecosystems within UNESCO sites.
The report quantifies the enormous amounts of so-called blue carbon absorbed and stored by those ecosystems across the world s 50 UNESCO marine World Heritage Sites.
Despite covering less than 1 per cent of the world s surface, blue carbon ecosystems are responsible for around half of the carbon dioxide absorbed by the world s oceans while it is estimated they absorb carbon dioxide at a rate about 30 times faster than rainforests. ....

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