Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation

Brendan Gogarty; Narissa Bax; David K.A. Barnes; Chester Sands; Jeffrey McGee; Marcus Haward; Maria Lund Paulsen; Bernabé Moreno; Camille Moreau; Christoph Held; Rachel Downey

doi:10.4337/9781788112239.00034

Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation

Brendan Gogarty, Narissa Bax, David K.A. Barnes, Chester Sands, Jeffrey McGee, Marcus Haward, Maria Lund Paulsen, Bernabé Moreno, Camille Moreau, Christoph Held, Rachel Downey

Biología marina

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Abstract

As sea-ice around Antarctica’s coastlines retracts, a massive ‘blue carbon’ area is emerging to replace it. This is a growing resource that is predicted to become the world’s largest natural carbon sequestration area. Given the loss of carbon sinks elsewhere and the existential threat of unabated climate change, this is an incredibly important global good that must be protected and promoted. In this chapter, we explore the legal and diplomatic barriers to that protection and posit potential solutions. In particular, we suggest vertical institutional linkage between the Antarctic Treaty System and the United Nations climate regimes as a way of incentivizing the establishment of global cooperative marine protected areas around Antarctica’s coasts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Pages	462-484
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9781788112239
ISBN (Print)	9781788112222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112239.00034
State	Published - 1 Jan 2020

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.4337/9781788112239.00034

Cite this

Gogarty, B., Bax, N., Barnes, D. K. A., Sands, C., McGee, J., Haward, M., Paulsen, M. L., Moreno, B., Moreau, C., Held, C., & Downey, R. (2020). Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation. In Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts (pp. 462-484). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112239.00034

@inbook{5473f766219e4fc4a796fa06daa81c63,

title = "Protecting Antarctica{\textquoteright}s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation",

abstract = "As sea-ice around Antarctica{\textquoteright}s coastlines retracts, a massive {\textquoteleft}blue carbon{\textquoteright} area is emerging to replace it. This is a growing resource that is predicted to become the world{\textquoteright}s largest natural carbon sequestration area. Given the loss of carbon sinks elsewhere and the existential threat of unabated climate change, this is an incredibly important global good that must be protected and promoted. In this chapter, we explore the legal and diplomatic barriers to that protection and posit potential solutions. In particular, we suggest vertical institutional linkage between the Antarctic Treaty System and the United Nations climate regimes as a way of incentivizing the establishment of global cooperative marine protected areas around Antarctica{\textquoteright}s coasts.",

author = "Brendan Gogarty and Narissa Bax and Barnes, {David K.A.} and Chester Sands and Jeffrey McGee and Marcus Haward and Paulsen, {Maria Lund} and Bernab{\'e} Moreno and Camille Moreau and Christoph Held and Rachel Downey",

year = "2020",

month = jan,

day = "1",

doi = "10.4337/9781788112239.00034",

language = "Ingl{\'e}s",

isbn = "9781788112222",

pages = "462--484",

booktitle = "Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts",

publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.",

}

TY - CHAP

T1 - Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon

T2 - a case for international cooperation

AU - Gogarty, Brendan

AU - Bax, Narissa

AU - Barnes, David K.A.

AU - Sands, Chester

AU - McGee, Jeffrey

AU - Haward, Marcus

AU - Paulsen, Maria Lund

AU - Moreno, Bernabé

AU - Moreau, Camille

AU - Held, Christoph

AU - Downey, Rachel

PY - 2020/1/1

Y1 - 2020/1/1

N2 - As sea-ice around Antarctica’s coastlines retracts, a massive ‘blue carbon’ area is emerging to replace it. This is a growing resource that is predicted to become the world’s largest natural carbon sequestration area. Given the loss of carbon sinks elsewhere and the existential threat of unabated climate change, this is an incredibly important global good that must be protected and promoted. In this chapter, we explore the legal and diplomatic barriers to that protection and posit potential solutions. In particular, we suggest vertical institutional linkage between the Antarctic Treaty System and the United Nations climate regimes as a way of incentivizing the establishment of global cooperative marine protected areas around Antarctica’s coasts.

AB - As sea-ice around Antarctica’s coastlines retracts, a massive ‘blue carbon’ area is emerging to replace it. This is a growing resource that is predicted to become the world’s largest natural carbon sequestration area. Given the loss of carbon sinks elsewhere and the existential threat of unabated climate change, this is an incredibly important global good that must be protected and promoted. In this chapter, we explore the legal and diplomatic barriers to that protection and posit potential solutions. In particular, we suggest vertical institutional linkage between the Antarctic Treaty System and the United Nations climate regimes as a way of incentivizing the establishment of global cooperative marine protected areas around Antarctica’s coasts.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137904156&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4337/9781788112239.00034

DO - 10.4337/9781788112239.00034

M3 - Capítulo

AN - SCOPUS:85137904156

SN - 9781788112222

SP - 462

EP - 484

BT - Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts

PB - Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

ER -

Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation

Abstract

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this