DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1694482
论文题名: Protecting Antarctic blue carbon: as marine ice retreats can the law fill the gap?
作者: Gogarty B. ; McGee J. ; Barnes D.K.A. ; Sands C.J. ; Bax N. ; Haward M. ; Downey R. ; Moreau C. ; Moreno B. ; Held C. ; Paulsen M.L.
刊名: Climate Policy
ISSN: 14693062
出版年: 2020
卷: 20, 期: 2 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Antarctic Treaty System
; Antarctica
; Blue carbon
; non market approach
; Paris Agreement
Scopus关键词: Antarctic Treaty
; carbon
; carbon storage
; environmental policy
; environmental protection
; governance approach
; ice retreat
; sea ice
; United Nations
; Antarctica
英文摘要: As marine-ice around Antarctica retracts, a vast ‘blue carbon’ sink, in the form of living biomass, is emerging. Properly protected and promoted Antarctic blue carbon will form the world’s largest natural negative feedback on climate change. However, fulfilling this promise may be challenging, given the uniqueness of the region and the legal systems that govern it. In this interdisciplinary study, we explain: the global significance of Antarctic blue carbon to international carbon mitigation efforts; the urgent need for international legal protections for areas where it is emerging; and the hurdles that need to be overcome to realize those goals. In order to progress conservation efforts past political blockages we recommend the development of an inter-instrument governance framework that quantifies the sequestration value of Antarctic blue carbon for attribution to states’ climate mitigation commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Key policy insights Blue-carbon emergence around Antarctica’s coastlines will potentially store up to 160,000,000 tonnes of carbon annually. Blue-carbon will emerge in areas of rich biomass that will make it vulnerable to harvesting and other human activities; it is essential to incentivise conserving, rather than commercial exploitation of newly ice-free areas of the Southern Ocean. Antarctic blue carbon is a practical and prime candidate to build a cooperative, inter-instrument, non-market mitigation around; this should be considered at the ‘blue COP’ UN Climate change discussions in Spain. Allowing Antarctic fishing states to account for the carbon storage value of blue carbon zones through a non-market approach under the Paris Agreement could provide a vital incentive to their protection under the Antarctic Treaty System. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research would be the ideal body to facilitate the necessary connections between the relevant climate and Antarctic governance regimes. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/159350
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作者单位: Faculty of Law, UTAS, Hobart, Australia; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia; Natural Environment Research Council, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Centre for Marine Socioecology, Hobart, Australia; Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National UniversityACT, Australia; Department of Biology of Organisms, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Marine Ecology Laboratory, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru; Department of Functional Ecology, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany; Department of Bioscience, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Recommended Citation:
Gogarty B.,McGee J.,Barnes D.K.A.,et al. Protecting Antarctic blue carbon: as marine ice retreats can the law fill the gap?[J]. Climate Policy,2020-01-01,20(2)