Blue Growth Potential to Mitigate Climate Change through Seaweed Offsetting.
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TL;DR: The extent and cost of scaling seaweed aquaculture to provide sufficient CO2eq sequestration for several climate change mitigation scenarios are assessed, with a focus on the food sector-a major source of greenhouse gases.
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About: This article is published in Current Biology. The article was published on 23 Sep 2019. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Seaweed farming.
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