This report explores innovative ways to finance the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of blue carbon ecosystems like mangroves, seagrass meadows, and tidal salt marshes. It focuses on non-carbon market approaches (NCMAs), which offer alternatives to carbon credit trading, such as ecosystem service payments, insurance products, and public or private funding.
The report highlights the importance of tailoring financing strategies to local contexts, ensuring community engagement, and meeting enabling conditions for project success. It provides practical insights, case studies, and tools to help policymakers and practitioners design effective, equitable, and scalable projects that address climate change, biodiversity loss, and community resilience.
