IUCN launches first guidelines to design and deploy Blue Carbon projects in Europe, Mediterranean

IUCN launches first guidelines to design and deploy Blue Carbon projects in Europe, Mediterranean

NNA - Conservation of blue carbon ecosystems such as wetlands and seagrasses is one of the most effective management measures for climate change mitigation. The Manual for the Creation of Blue Carbon Projects in Europe and the Mediterranean launched today by IUCN intends to respond to the growing interest in managing, protecting, and restoring these blue carbon habitats to their full potential as a part of local and global climate change mitigation policies.

In particular, this manual presents all the necessary methodological steps from the design of a blue carbon project on the ground to reporting according to diverse standards to obtain carbon credit offsets. Furthermore, it includes a selection of the best options in terms of restauration for mitigation, how to optimise efforts to obtain field data and building robust estimates within the boundaries of blue carbon projects.