Climate action requires new accounting guidance and governance frameworks to manage carbon in shelf seas

Tiziana Luisetti; Silvia Ferrini; Gaetano Grilli; Timothy D. Jickells; Hilary Kennedy; Silke Kroger; Irene Lorenzoni; Ben Milligan; Johan van der Molen; Ruth Parker; Tim Pryce; R. Kerry Turner; Emmanouil Tyllianakis

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18242-w

Climate action requires new accounting guidance and governance frameworks to manage carbon in shelf seas

Tiziana Luisetti, Silvia Ferrini, Gaetano Grilli, Timothy D. Jickells, Hilary Kennedy, Silke Kroger, Irene Lorenzoni, Ben Milligan, Johan van der Molen, Ruth Parker, Tim Pryce, R. Kerry Turner, Emmanouil Tyllianakis

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Accounting guidelines exist for the recording of carbon flows in terrestrial and coastal ecosystems. Shelf sea sediments, while considered an important carbon store, have yet to receive comparable scrutiny. Here, we explore whether effective management of carbon stocks accumulating in shelf seas could contribute towards a nation’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. We review the complexities of carbon transport and fate in shelf seas, and the geopolitical challenges of carbon accounting in climate governance because of the transboundary nature of carbon flows in the marine environment. New international accounting guidance and governance frameworks are needed to prompt climate action.

Original language	English
Article number	4599
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	11
Issue number	1
Early online date	15 Sep 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18242-w
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2020

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Luisetti, T., Ferrini, S., Grilli, G., Jickells, T. D., Kennedy, H., Kroger, S., Lorenzoni, I., Milligan, B., van der Molen, J., Parker, R., Pryce, T., Turner, R. K., & Tyllianakis, E. (2020). Climate action requires new accounting guidance and governance frameworks to manage carbon in shelf seas. Nature Communications, 11(1), [4599 ]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18242-w

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Climate action requires new accounting guidance and governance frameworks to manage carbon in shelf seas

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