What is the role of mangroves for carbon? Mangrove forests have a role as an absorber and a reservoir of CO2, where the amount of carbon sinks and stores is more than 4 gigatons of carbon per year up to 112 gigatons carbon year

Carbon storage in the mangrove ecosystem as a whole by measuring tree and dead wood biomass, soil carbon content and soil depth in 25 mangrove forests throughout the Indo-Pacific region. Available data indicate that mangroves are one of the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics, containing about 1023 Mg of carbon per hectare. Soils with high organic content have depths from 0.5 m to more than 3 m and constitute 49-98% of the carbon storage in this ecosystem. 

An alternative that has the potential to be developed at this time is controlling carbon concentrations, namely through the development of carbon sequestration (carbon sinks) of mangrove forests through rehabilitation with fast-growing mangrove species.