Seychelles to map seagrass for impact of global warming, hmm wonder why????

A little background. These islands make their living off tourists, you know ones who FLY in leaving a big carbon footprint, but forget about that.

They were one of the first to complain about how global warming, climate change, whatever the buzzword is now, is impacting their lives. Why it might erode their beaches and take away their only means of screwing up the environment,,,,, tourists.

Of course other countries are now clamouring for that piece of Paris Accord pie, not to be outdone they have now commissioned a study on seagrass, WHICH THEY SAY CAPTURES CARBON AT 40 TIMES THE RATE OF THE RAINFOREST/JUNGLE....translation "back off Africa, this is our pie to eat not yours".

Here is a blurb about "the study"....

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Countries can include seagrass protections as a nature-based solution in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, to bolster global efforts to lessen the impacts of climate change. To account for the climate values provided by the protection of seagrass within policy—and to successfully manage the carbon stored in seagrass soils—countries should know the distribution and extent of their seagrass meadows, and (if possible) estimate the below-ground carbon stock.

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NDCs gentlemen, NDCs, or in state department parlance "Benjamins, show me the Benjamins".