François-Philippe Champagne - Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, announced that the government of Canada is making a staggering USD154mn investment for ocean carbon research at Dalhousie University. The grant recipient is the research program called Transforming Climate Action, led by Dalhousie University and supported by its partnering institutions Université du Québec à Rimouski, Université Laval, and Memorial University of Newfoundland. Surpassing the effect of rainforests, the global ocean is our planet’s biggest filter against carbon emissions, holding 90% of the Earth’s carbon and having absorbed 40% of fossil fuel emissions so far.

Source: carbonherald