How to Improve Ocean Carbon Sink Capacity? Brainstorming Between Chinese and Foreign Scholars
The 1st International Forum Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions opened in Xiamen city of southeast China’s Fujian Province yesterday.
As one of the supporting activities of the 2022 World Ocean Week in Xiamen, this seminar was held online and offline. Experts and scholars from home and abroad were invited to share and exchange ideas on negative emissions in the ocean, offered proposals to improve the capacity of marine carbon sinks and achieve carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals.
Keynote speeches were centering on the contribution of Global-ONCE to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. "Oceanic negative emissions refers to the absorption and storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the ocean. It is known that the ocean is the largest active carbon reservoir on the planet. As a "regulator" of climate change, the ocean has great negative emission potential. It is a core path to combat climate change and achieve carbon neutrality", said by the expert.
“The seminar attracted hundreds of on-site guests and more than 600 online guests at home and abroad, which demonstrated our power of discourse and scientific influence in ocean negative emissions”, said the organizer.
As reported, Global-ONCE is initiated by Chinese scientists, and its partners includes hundreds of outstanding scientists from more than 70 scientific research institutes in approximately 30 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Africa. On June 8 this year, Global-ONCE was officially incorporated into the Action Plan of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.