Nature – Rickels et al. (2024): The ocean carbon sink enhances countries’ inclusive wealth and reduces the cost of national climate policies
Wilfried Rickels, Felix Meier, Sonja Peterson, Sina Rühland, Sneha Thube, Johannes Karstensen, Conny Posern, Claudia Wolff, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Patricia Grasse, Martin Quaas IN: Communications Earth & Environment 5, 513, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01674-3
Improving our understanding of future ocean carbon uptake requires a nuanced understanding of the value of the annual ocean sink. Here, the authors combine an abatement cost-based approach and a climate damage-based approach to assess the value of the annual ocean sink.