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Blue Guardians Partnership
Understanding how climate change affects the oceans is key to the future of Small Island Developing States.Arendal, Norway, 1 October 2015 - A new international initiative called Blue Guardians was recently launched by Former U.S. President Clinton to help address the...
TOF Blue Carbon Initiatives
The Ocean Foundation (TOF) is currently involved in a number of blue carbon initiatives, the focus of which is our Blue Carbon offset program, SeaGrass Grow!SeaGrass Grow! is an innovative carbon offset program that protects and restores seagrass habitats by providing...
Blue Carbon Science Toolkit
Five Masters of Environmental Management students at Duke University have partnered with LabEx Mer to create a Blue Carbon Science Toolkit. The goal of the toolkit is to provide resource managers with key information on how to estimate carbon content of coastal...
Upscaling Mikoko Pamoja
The Blue Forests Project is working with the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) in upscaling the activities of Mikoko Pamoja in Vanga at the south coast of Kenya. Mikoko Pamoja is a small-scale carbon offset facility involving mangroves. Started in...
Blue Carbon UAE
November 2012 marked a significant milestone for the Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI) with the initiation of the one-year long Abu Dhabi Blue Carbon Demonstration Project. With the vision and direction from His Highness the late Sheikh Zayed bin...
Blue Forests in France
On Tuesday, June the 9th, the Blue Forests Project was presented before the French Ministry of Environment and the French Ministry of Foreign affairs. This event followed the celebration of the World Ocean Day, on the 8th and was a seminar organized by the University...
Financing Blue Carbon
Identifying ways of factoring the climate change mitigation role of coastal ecosystems into policy making has been the focus of an international workshop held 23-25 June in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Around 50 participants from around the world joined the discussion in...
Blue Forests in Norway
Late last year, GRID-Arendal, the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) founded a new Norwegian initiative to strengthen and share national competence on 'blue forest' habitats. The network is now engaging...
Underestimating the Ocean
Gland, Switzerland, 9 December 2014 - Protecting key carbon-absorbing areas of the ocean and conserving fish and krill stocks are critical for tackling climate change. This is one of the findings of a report released today by the International Union for Conservation...
Keep it Fresh or Salty
Wetlands International, Conservation International and IUCN have together produced the publication Keep it Fresh or Salty: An introductory guide to financing wetland carbon programs and projects.The report provides guidance for program and project developers from, or...
Norwegian Blue Forests Network
The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), GRID-Arendal and the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) have become the pioneering founders of a new Norwegian initiative to strengthen and share national competence on 'blue forest' habitats.These...
GEF Blue Forest Inaugural Meeting
Abu Dhabi, UAE - The Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Blue Forests Project had its inaugural meeting in Abu Dhabi in November, hosted by AGEDI. The Project helps develop Blue Carbon science and data management through the production of tools and the testing of...
Blue Forests Project Approved
Today the GEF Council, the governing body of the Global Environment Facility, approved an unprecedented large work program within the fifth replenishment cycle of the GEF. With 40 stand alone projects and 9 programmatic approaches amounting to $516.40 million, this...