working togther to understand blue carbon

The objective of the meeting was to bring together ongoing EU projects on blue carbon in order to understand better what we know, what we don’t know and what we are doing to provide the means for reliable reporting and management of blue carbon ecosystems.

The four projects considered here were:

• A study under Mission Ocean led by Trinomics which aims to identify what we know about how countries report blue carbon.
• C-Blues a research collaboration with China which aims to significantly advance knowledge and understanding of blue carbon ecosystems improve reporting of blue carbon, and promote the role of blue carbon in delivering climate policy commitments.
• MPA Europe which is mapping the optimal locations for marine protected areas in European seas using a holistic approach that considers both biodiversity and carbon sequestration, storage and deposition.
• OBAMA-Next which is producing a toolbox delivering information products for marine ecosystems.

The C-Blues project is building a standard operation procedures building on the 2013 IPCCguidelines, that could potentially be adopted internationally. The participants agreed that faster progress could be acahieved by sharing data on land use, land use change and carbon stiorage. 

More details and the presentations are provided here