{"id":34744,"date":"2022-11-12T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T03:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34744"},"modified":"2025-04-20T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:21:05","slug":"mangroves-as-carbon-sink-india-joins-five-nation-alliance-at-cop27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mangroves-as-carbon-sink-india-joins-five-nation-alliance-at-cop27\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangroves as Carbon Sink: India Joins Five-Nation Alliance at COP27"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mangroves \u2013 About, Importance, India and the mangroves<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>At the ongoing 27th Session of Conference of Parties (COP27) at Sharm El-Sheikh, the Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC) was launched with India as a partner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2><strong>Mangroves<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mangrove trees can grow in saline waters, and can sequester up to four times more carbon than tropical rainforests.<\/li>\n<li>Eighty per cent of the global fish populations depend on mangrove ecosystems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why are mangroves significant in fighting climate change?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>With notable adaptive features, mangroves are the natural armed forces of tropical and subtropical nations.<\/li>\n<li>They are the best option to fight against consequences of climate change such as sea level rise and increased frequency of natural calamities like cyclones and storm surges.<\/li>\n<li>They are among the\u00a0most carbon-rich forests in the tropics\u00a0and\u00a0account for three per cent of carbon sequestered\u00a0by the world\u2019s tropical forests.<\/li>\n<li>Mangroves are the economic foundations of many tropical coastal regions.<\/li>\n<li>To sustain the blue economy, it is imperative to ensure the sustainability of coastal habitats, particularly mangroves for tropical nations, at the local, regional, and international levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>India and the mangroves<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India holds around 3 percent of South Asia\u2019s mangrove population.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Forest Survey report 2021, mangroves cover in the country is 4,992 square km, which is 0.15 percent of the country\u2019s total geographical area.\n<ul>\n<li>Since 2019, the cover has risen by only 17 sq km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>West Bengal has the highest percentage of mangrove cover in India. It is followed by Gujarat and Andaman, and Nicobar Islands.\n<ul>\n<li>Maharashtra, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Goa and Kerala too have mangrove.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In India, mangrove ecosystems are\u00a0legally protected by the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 2011 under the Environment Protection Act, 1986.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>At the United Nations climate summit \u2013 the 27th Session of Conference of Parties (COP27) \u2013 held at the Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, India was among the first countries to join the Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>MAC is an initiative\u00a0spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates\u00a0(UAE) in partnership with Indonesia to strengthen efforts on conserving and restoring mangrove forests.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to raise awareness about the role of mangroves as a \u201cnature-based\u201d solution to climate change.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India is among the first countries<\/strong>\u00a0to join the alliance; the others include\u00a0Australia, Japan, Spain, and Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<li>As part of this alliance, an international mangrove research centre will be established in Indonesia.\n<ul>\n<li>This centre will conduct studies on mangrove ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and ecotourism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Working<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The intergovernmental alliance will work on a voluntary basis and countries will set their deadlines for mangrove conservation.\n<ul>\n<li>The parties will decide their own commitments and deadlines regarding planting and restoring mangroves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It will be difficult to hold members accountable. However, the member nations will share expertise and back each other in the endeavour to protect coastal areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>India\u2019s association would strengthen MAC<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As part of its Nationally determined contributions (NDCs), India has committed to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through additional forest and tree cover by 2030.\n<ul>\n<li>Hence, India is keen on growing the mangrove plantation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>India has demonstrated expertise in mangrove restoration activities for nearly five decades and restored different types of mangrove ecosystems both on its east and west coasts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP27 at Sharm El-Sheikh, the Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC) was launched with India as a partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}