The Blue Carbon Initiative
The International Blue Carbon Initiative is a coordinated, global program focused on conserving and restoring coastal ecosystems for the climate, biodiversity and human wellbeing. Coastal ecosystems are some of the most productive on Earth.
What is Blue Carbon? — The Blue Carbon Initiative
What are blue carbon ecosystems? Why are coastal and marine ecosystems important for climate change mitigation? Compared to other ecosystems, do blue carbon ecosystems release significant amounts of CO2 per unit area upon conversion or degradation? Where are coastal blue carbon ecosystems found?
Blue Carbon Manual
The International Blue Carbon Initiative’s team of 34 experts in the fields of coastal carbon measurement, remote sensing, and climate policy produced this manual with the goal standardizing protocols for sampling methods, laboratory measurements, and analysis of blue carbon stocks and fluxes.
Scientific Working Group — The Blue Carbon Initiative
Formed in February 2011, the Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group provides the scientific foundation for the Blue Carbon Initiative by synthesizing current and emerging science on blue carbon and by providing a robust scientific basis for coastal carbon conservation, management and assessment.
Policy Guidance — The Blue Carbon Initiative
The guidelines support countries seeking to promote and preserve the climate benefits of blue carbon ecosystems by providing technical guidance on the multiple avenues for including these ecosystems within updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to …
Library - The Blue Carbon Initiative
From 2011 to 2018, the Blue Carbon Initiative’s International Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group and collaborators have published 198 documents which are indexed in Web of Science (including 174 peer-reviewed). These indexed publications have accumulated 5,521 total citations (with 28 average citations per publication) and sets an h-index ...
Blue Carbon Activities - The Blue Carbon Initiative
Major objectives include national-level accounting of carbon stocks and emissions from blue carbon ecosystems, increased management effectiveness of blue carbon ecosystems within protected areas, and the development of blue carbon offsets for tourism activities.
Policy Working Group — The Blue Carbon Initiative
Providing a framework for policy development that maximizes conservation of carbon in coastal ecosystems and mobilizes the implementation of that framework; and Building an integrated blue carbon community that supports policy implementation.
Copenhagen, Denmark – September 2019 - The Blue Carbon …
Nov 21, 2019 · The Blue Carbon Initiative Scientific Working Group held its 12th annual meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, from September 9-13, 2019. The meeting was co-hosted by the Blue Carbon Initiative Scientific Working Group (BCISWG), the University of Southern Denmark, and the Florida International University,
NEW GUIDANCE TO IDENTIFY BLUE CARBON POLICY PRIORITIES
NEW GUIDANCE TO IDENTIFY BLUE CARBON POLICY PRIORITIES. The value and role of mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses for climate change mitigation was established back in 2009 by reports by IUCN and UNEP to focus attention on addressing a critical gap in national carbon accounting and management.