Seascape carbon management beyond wetlands as eligible blue carbon activities
Published: 2024
Author(s): Ana M Queirós, Mingxi Yang, Saskia Rühl, Cornelia Rindt, Melissa Ward and Steve Crooks
This Issues Paper reviews peer-reviewed scientific evidence on the potential to expand carbon finance methodologies under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) to encompass Near Shore Seascape Carbon, beyond current ecosystems considered under such mechanisms, i.e., vegetated wetlands. For this assessment, no evidence was therefore reviewed on tidal wetlands, seagrasses, and mangrove ecosystems, for which carbon offset methodologies already exist.