System · Rationale

Mangrove forest

Coastal forest ecosystem of salt-tolerant trees in intertidal zones, providing blue-carbon storage and coastal protection while exposed to sea-level rise, storm surge, and warming.

Definition source: IPCC SROCC (blue carbon ecosystems)

Synonyms

mangrove

Broader

Forest

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

System is exposed to a climate hazard, OR is acted on by a hazard-addressing intervention, OR benefits from a qualifying outcome or an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when named only as the sector or commodity of work, with no exposure and no hazard-addressing action on it.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

SYS_043 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_043
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_043)