This silk painting illustrates how salt marshes are carbon sinks.
Like forests and oceans, salt marshes absorb and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Art Credit: Susan Quateman
The Sequestration Working Group seeks to encourage natural sequestration through tree and grass planting. Merely stopping the continued use of fossil fuels will not solve our climate warming. We need to remove (sequester) the excess CO2 that already exists in the atmosphere to cool the planet. Technology today does not exist to do this efficiently, so it is essential to maintain and increase natural carbon sequestration on land and in the oceans.
Photo Credit: Skylar Crofton