Aquaculture: Ocean Blue Carbon Meets UN-SDGS

This book presents a solutions based approach to reducing and removing  CO2 from the atmosphere transforming it into solid (crystalline) CaCO3  through the ability of marine organisms such as molluscs, crustacea,  corals, and coccolithophore algae. The overwhelming advantage of this  approach is that it promises enhanced climate mitigation in comparison  to planting forests, industrial/engineering carbon capture and storage  process. It also provides a sustainable food resource. Furthermore, it  would improve the ocean's biodiversity at the same time as the excess  atmospheric CO2 released by our use of fossil fuels is returned to the  place it belongs - as a present day fossil, safely out of the atmosphere  to the distant future. If the level of finance and global effort that  are readily foreseen for forest management and flue gas treatments were  applied to expansion of global shellfish cultivation, curative amounts  of carbon dioxide could be permanently removed from the atmosphere  within a few decades. The concept presented in this book could have a  profound influence on the life of the planet.