System · Rationale

Coastal wetland

Wetland ecosystem in the intertidal or near-shore coastal zone (e.g. salt marsh, seagrass meadow) that stores blue carbon and buffers coasts, exposed to sea-level rise, warming, and storm surge.

Definition source: IPCC SROCC (coastal wetlands / blue carbon)

Synonyms

tidal wetland

Broader

Wetland

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_047 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_047
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_047)