Scott Kulp

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Coastal wetlands provide valuable ecosystem services, amounting to trillions of dollars per year globally (Costanza et al 2014). They provide habitat for fisheries, defend against coastal storms and erosion, and effectively capture and store carbon dioxide (Arkema et al 2013, Duarte et al 2013, Narayan et al 2017, Howard et al 2017).

A portion of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions will stay in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, raising temperatures and sea levels globally. Most nations' emissions-reduction policies and actions do not seem to reflect this long-term threat, as collectively they point toward widespread permanent inundation of many developed areas.