Blue Carbon - First Level Exploration of Blue Carbon in the Arabian Peninsula

Setting The Arabian Peninsula region considered in this report extends from the border of Kuwait and Iraq on the Persian Gulf on the northeast to the border of Saudi Arabia and Jordan on the Red Sea.

Figure 1: The Arabian Peninsula

Figure 2: The Carbon Cycle. Oceans are crucial in the global carbon cycle. The living oceans capture over half of all the carbon bound by living organisms through photosynthesis.

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