- Carbon sequestering: wet soils and its benefits
- Photosynthesis and its link to carbon sequestering
- Its link to the 2030 green plan

Wet soils aid in the proficiency of carbon sequestering. As explored by multiple communities around the globe, it is proven that soils is a natural solution to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with less impacts on our physical environment around us. Moreover less energy is harnessed to adopt this as an efficient carbon sequestering and is low cost. In fact, all that is required for this “system” of wetland soils to sequester carbon is simply better land management and agricultural practices to enhance the soils. 

So, how does carbon sequestration work? Carbon sequestrated through photosynthesis, and can be stored as soil organic carbon. Agricultural ecosystems can then tap on the carbon absorbed by the soil, depleting it. This then gives more space for more carbon to be sequestrated. When bringing up the point of photosynthesis, we must note that water is required in the process. Hence, wetland soils pose as a great agricultural and multi beneficial spot where plants aid in carbon depletion from soil in the process of photosynthesis as carbon dioxide is a byproduct. Thorough that, it forms a continuous cycle of the flow of carbon from the environment to the soils and then to photosynthesis., which also clearly explains the use of wetland soils.

Linking it back to the 2030 Green Plan and how it is relavant in the context of Singapore, we have multiple natural wetlands here in Singapore, such as Sungei Buloh. Through maintaining our agriculture in these spots, we are very much able to apply the chemistry of photosynthesis and soil sequestration into this to aid not only in the greenery of Singapore’s lands or agricultural crop harvests, but to also help achieve Singapore’s goal of carbon reduction by 2030 with cost efficiency.