Examples of carbon sink

• Wood fibre products are a very precious natural resource and play a role in the carbon sink cycle.

• America is depending on developing world carbon sinks to keep its exports cheap and its industry subsidised.

• Biodiversity is essential to mitigating and adapting to climate change, given, for example, the role of land and sea ecosystems as major carbon sinks.

• Carbon sinks are also often people's homes, and ascribing their environment a carbon value would increase the threat to indigenous peoples' land rights.

• Carbon sinks lock in industrial greenhouse gas emissions temporarily—50 years is temporarily in terms of the history of the world.

• Reay's key peer reviewed publications include novel work on global carbon sinks, the soil methane sink, and nitrous oxide emissions from aquatic systems.

• The mats described here are a potential coastal carbon sink that, while small on a global scale, have not been accounted for previously.

• Recycling residues provides nutrients, helps prevent erosion, and enhances the soil carbon sink.