Background

Mangroves, tidal marshes, seagrass, seaweed and other coastal and marine ecosystems capture and store ‘blue carbon’ – which holds exciting potential for wetlands-rich countries to meet their national climate goals. But to counter the rapidly escalating threats to these fragile and under-researched ecosystems, we urgently need to advance our understanding of them through knowledge-sharing and collaboration.

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What is Blue Carbon Deck?

The Blue Carbon Deck is a Transformative Partnership Platform (TPP) designed to bring together the multiple initiatives around blue carbon to become the go-to source on blue carbon for researchers, civil society and practitioners working in coastal communities.

Hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), the platform will ensure that programmes and projects are guided by the latest science while maintaining a focus on the particular challenges faced by people and foundation ecosystems. Having established a long-term and flourishing network of individuals and agencies across the globe, CIFOR-ICRAF is uniquely suited to hosting this new collaboration.

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Daniel Murdiyarso

Principal Scientist

i-Mangrove toolbox

i-Mangrove an online platform compiles and presents spatial information on the distribution of mangrove loss, opportunities for their restoration, and data on coastal typology and land cover. It also showcases some previous and current restoration projects. Such a platform, regularly updated, responds to the continuous demand for mangrove restoration opportunities and the need for policymakers and project developers to monitor the success of the projects.

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Event

Trees, forests & climate: CIFOR-ICRAF at UNFCCC COP29

11-22 Nov 2024, Baku, Azerbaijan

As the 29th Conference of the Parties to the landmark UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) whirs into gear, the role of forests and trees in mitigating both anthropogenic climate change and its most disastrous impacts – and helping people and ecosystems adapt to the changes that are already happening – is more critical than ever.

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Stories

How to get carbon markets right

Carbon markets have been variously lauded as a critical part of addressing the climate crisis, and criticized as empty greenwash. Either way, they’re moving some serious cash: the global carbon credit market traded value was almost USD 1 trillion in 2022, and is tipped to reach USD 2.68 trillion by 2028.

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