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Building Blue Carbon Projects
An Introductory Guide
Key takeaways:
Blue carbon ecosystems are experiencing degradation and loss across the world.
Blue Carbon projects use the value of climate change mitigation to support the conservation,
sustainable use, and restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems.
Healthy Blue Carbon ecosystems provide many important ecosystem services, including the storage and sequestration
of atmospheric carbon, thereby helping to mitigate climate change. Degraded Blue Carbon ecosystems, such as these
deforested mangroves in Vatoava, Madagascar, provide fewer ecosystem services and can release stored greenhouse
gases (GHG) into the atmosphere, thereby contributing to climate change (image credit and © Garth Cripps, Blue
Ventures).
