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Anne Christianson is the director of International Climate Policy at American Progress. She has a decade of environmental conservation and climate experience in the U.S. Congress, academia, and nongovernmental organization sector. She holds a master’s degree in biodiversity conservation from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where her research focused on climate equity and adaptation.
Blue carbon can help coastal nations meet their climate mitigation and adaptation targets—if policymakers follow the science.
The seventh Our Ocean conference takes place this week in Palau, and the United States can lead global commitments on protecting nature that have stalled since the onset of the pandemic.
Congress and the White House should act immediately to support our European allies and build long-term energy independence, while also providing American families with relief from the increased costs inflicted by the fossil fuel industry profiteering off Putin’s war on Ukraine.
As the Biden administration works to implement national and international forest pledges, it must take actions to secure the full suite of climate benefits that forests can provide.
