Webinar: Seagrass in Southeast Asia: Status, blue carbon potential, and recent trends – 05 November 2024

Webinar: Seagrass in Southeast Asia: Status, blue carbon potential, and recent trends

Presented by: Milica Stankovic of Prince of Songkla University

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 5, 9 am ICT (Bangkok, Thailand)

Monday, November 4, 9 pm US EST

Monday, November 4, 6 pm US PST

Tuesday, November 5, 2 am UTC

Tuesday, November 5, 7:30 am IST (Chennai, India)

Tuesday, November 5, 8 am BST (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

Tuesday, November 5, 9 am WIB (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Tuesday, November 5, 9 am ICT (Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam)

Tuesday, November 5, 10 am PHST (Manila, Philippines)

Tuesday, November 5, 10 am SGT (Singapore)

Tuesday, November 5, 10 am MYT (Kuala Lampur, Malaysia)

Tuesday, November 5, 10 am Australian WST (Perth, Australia)

Tuesday, November 5, 1 pm Australian EDT (Sydney, Australia)

Tuesday, November 5, 3 pm NZDT (Auckland, New Zealand)

Description: Southeast Asia’s seagrass ecosystems are highly diverse and productive and are potential global hotspots for carbon sequestration and storage. This webinar will summarize recent research and remaining knowledge gaps on the distribution, extent, species diversity, and carbon storage potential of seagrasses in Southeast Asia. It will also cover recent work on seagrass restoration in Thailand – including successes at increasing seagrass meadow areas and seagrass coverage over the past decades and more recent worrying declines in seagrass coverage and health.

Hosted by: OCTO and IUCN on behalf of SEA Success, a UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge project. The UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge is made possible by funding from Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and NORAD, the Norwegian agency for development cooperation.

Register here.