The resources provided by the Policy Framework for Blue Carbon Ecosystems project are meant to inform policy decision-makers and support policy experts in their advocacy efforts. These consist of policy briefs and other recommendations from our expert working groups and other relevant publications that support them.

Published outcomes of the project activities will be continually updated in this library. The project aims at spreading the knowledge generated therefore, feel free to download and use!

Policy briefs

• Beyond Carbon Credits: Non-Carbon Market Approaches for Conserving and Restoring Blue Carbon Habitats - November 2024

• Coastal Nature-Based Solutions to Avert, Minimize, and Address Loss and Damage - November 2024

• Coastal Blue Carbon Habitats: Recommendations for UNFCCC SB 60 – May 2024

• International Policy Framework for Blue Carbon Ecosystems – July 2023

• Options for strengthening action on the ocean and coasts under the UNFCCC (COP 28) – June 2023

• Guidelines for Blue Carbon and Nationally Determined Contributions — July 2023

• Policy Brief: Actionable Blue Carbon Ecosystems for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation – November 2023

Scientific Publications on Blue Carbon

• Identifying and accounting for ocean specific topics in the Global Stocktake (Joint submission by the Ocean & Climate Platform on behalf of IUCN, CI, WWF, TNC, and Plymouth Marine Laboratory)

• Von Unger, Moritz; Herr, Dorothée; Seneviratne, Thilanka; Castillo, Gabriela (2020): Blue NbS in NDCs. A booklet for successful implementation (GIZ 2020)

• Coastal blue carbon and Article 6: Implications and opportunities

• Adaptation of the Ocean, Coastal Areas and Ecosystems - Scoping Paper on Closing Knowledge Gaps and Advancing Action. A background paper for the Nairobi Work Programme, 13th Focal Point Forum, December 2019.

• Ocean deoxygenation : everyone's problem...summary for policy makers

• CBD Technical Series No. 87 - Assessing Progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 6 on Sustainable Marine Fisheries

Other resources

• Fiji Blue Carbon Reports

  • Blue Carbon in Fiji — Drivers of Deforestation and Degradation and Causes of Loss in Mangroves

  • Blue Carbon Trading Pathways for Fiji

  • Blue Carbon in Fiji — Carbon Rights Assessment and Benefit Sharing

• IUCN Resolution WCC-2020-Res-030 – Enhancing the resilience of coastal areas in the face of climate change, biodiversity crisis and rapid coastal development

• Blue Carbon Initiative website

• Global Mangrove Alliance

• Global Green-Gray Community of Practice

Other publications

• Options for strengthening action on the ocean and coasts under the UNFCCC (COP 27) – June 2022

• Options for strengthening action on the ocean and coasts under the UNFCCC (SB 56) – June 2022

• Building on the Ocean-Climate Dialogue: Options for strengthening action on the ocean under the UNFCCC (COP 26) – October 2021

• Coastal and Marine Ecosystems as Nature-Based Solutions in New or Updated Nationally Determined Contributions – October 2021

• Unpacking the Global UNFCCC Stocktake for Ocean-Climate Action – June 2021

• Coastal and Marine Ecosystems as Nature-Based Solutions in New or Updated Nationally Determined Contributions – A provisional analysis June 2021

• Considerations for the UNFCCC Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue on how to strengthen mitigation and adaptation action – November 2020

• Promoting Nature-based Solutions in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework – October 2020

• Joint Submission to the 2022 UNFCCC Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue (Joint submission by Conservation International on behalf of IUCN, Rare, The Nature Conservancy, WWF, Ocean Conservancy, Ocean & Climate Platform and the Marine Conservation Society)