Harnessing the oceans to ‘bury’ carbon has huge potential – and risk – so NZ needs to move with caution
- Written by: Rebecca J McLeod, Senior Research Fellow in Marine Ecology, University of Otago
Climate change might not be high on its immediate agenda, but New Zealand’s new government does have one potentially significant and innovative policy.
Recognising the marine environment’s ability to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂), it has pledged to consider bringing wetlands into the emissions trading scheme, and to inves...
