China Pursuing Bigger Ocean Carbon Sinks to Help Meet Climate Goals
sink" and enhance climate resilience in its marine ecological system as part of its pledge to reduce greenhouse gases to net zero by 2060, officials said.A carbon sink is a natural or an artificial reservoir that can store carbon extracted from the atmosphere. China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, aims to increase its forest sink by 6 billion cubic meters above the 2005 level.But as China comes under growing land pressure and tries to maximize the available space for forest, nature reserves as well as arable land, the country is looking to take advantage of its vast territorial waters
China Says Important Glacier is Melting Due to Climate Change
over the past several years. "This is direct evidence of global climate change," he said. Pu said the Yangtze would get more water in the short term as that glacier and others melt, but eventually no more water would flow from them. China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has promised to bring greenhouse gas emissions to a peak by "around 2030" as part of its commitments to a global pact to combat global warming, signed in Paris last year. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Robert Birsel