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Building Blue Carbon Projects
An Introductory Guide
Understanding pathways and mechanisms that utilise the value of Blue Carbon to improve
ecosystem management (e.g., carbon finance PDD or Blue Carbon Viability Assessment Report)
and producing recommendations for steps forward.
Project Management and Coordination
Project Management and Coordination covers the management, coordination and reporting
elements of the project. Its focus it to manage all of the various project elements and activities
and to ensure that they are carried out effectively and successfully. As Blue Carbon projects can
include multidisciplinary teams and exerts with a wide range in backgrounds and experience, this
element will involve working across groups, aligning internal team members and partners, and
managing external stakeholders. Primary activities for Project Management and Coordination can
include:
Coordination of all project activities and elements according to a master schedule, using a
flexible and adaptive management process;
Management of the project partners, including contract administration, authorisation and
memorandums of understanding;
Using a flexible and adaptive management process; and
Acting as the responsible party for the on-time production of project deliverables and project
reporting.
Capacity Building and Knowledge Transfer
Sustainable management of the marine environment relies on sound scientific data and
information. Blue Carbon projects depend on access to, and availability of, credible and reliable
environmental data, knowledge, and information. Also essential is the integration, translation and
communication of this data and information into policies, the carbon and other markets, and
decision making at the national and international level. Capacity building in carbon assessment
and spatial analysis is essential for effective verification, accounting and monitoring of Blue
Carbon. This is especially true if the process is to be maintained after the demonstration project.
A Blue Carbon project can provide many opportunities for partners and stakeholders to gain
understanding in Blue Carbon (illustrated in Section 6). Activities for the Capacity Building and
Knowledge Transfer element can include the following:
Holding training and capacity building workshops that teach local stakeholders and enhance
national science capacity in the measurement and accounting of carbon in Blue Carbon
ecosystems;
Providing training in the use of geographic tools to support continued assessment and
monitoring efforts;
Developing recruitment and training programs to deepen the capacity for monitoring and
related activities; and
Improving capacity and ecosystem management
