Question
UPSC Prelims 2021 Question:
What is blue carbon?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Option 1: Carbon captured by oceans and coastal ecosystems
Detailed Solution
Explanation:
- The term “blue carbon” refers to the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems. The blue carbon ecosystems – mangroves, tidal and salt marshes, and seagrasses – are highly productive coastal ecosystems that are particularly important for their capacity to store carbon within the plants and in the sediments below.
- Green carbon is the carbon captured into terrestrial plant biomass in photosynthesis and stored in the plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle.
Therefore, option (1) is the correct answer.
Subject: Environment | Pollution
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