Rehabilitating Blue Carbon Habitats Programme

Overview

The Aim of the Rehabilitating Blue Carbon Habitats (RBCH Programme) is to showcase and demonstrate a range of interlinked social, economic and environmental benefits associated with rehabilitating and effectively conserving Blue Carbon habitats.

Objectives (selection):

 Blue Carbon:

• To research, develop and apply innovative tools and protocols for measuring, reporting and verifying project derived carbon storage and sequestration addtionality in mangrove and seagrass habitats.
• To conserve, sustainably manage and ecologically rehabilitate mangrove forest.
• To generate Blue Carbon Credits at project Demonstration Sites through mangrove ecological rehabilitation, conservation and sustainable management to be traded within emerging carbon markets.

Payments for (non-carbon) Ecosystem Services:

• To develop tools and externally verifiable economic units for measuring, verifying and reporting project derived addtionality in selected ecosystem services and biodiversity.
• To demonstrate the potential market values and viability of such benefits within voluntary, market-based PES trading mechanisms via measuring, reporting and verifying project derived addtionality (Source: UNEP et al. 2011).

Features

Biome: Mangroves

Location: Indonesia, Australia

Status: active

Project type: Demonstration Project

Area: 56,400 hectares combined

Project Partners: 

• UNEP
• Mangrove Action Project (MAP)
• Operation Wallacea
• RIEL Institute, Charles Darwin University
• Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI)

Resources

Documents:

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Internal links:

• Mangrove Action Project

External links:

• UNEP
• Mangrove Action Project
• RIEL Institute, Charles Darwin University
• Operation Wallacea
• AWI

References

UNEP et al. (2011): UNEP et al. (2011): Concept Proposal. Rehabilitating Blue Carbon Habitats to Facilitate Sustainable Socioeconomic Development and Enhance Environmental Values Applied Research Programme.