Incorporating blue carbon sequestration benefits into sub-national climate policies

Wedding, Lisa M.; Moritsch, Monica M.; Verutes, Gregory; Arkema, Katie K.; Hartge, Eric; Reiblich, Jesse; Douglass, James A.; Taylor, S.; Strong, Aaron

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102206

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“…More and more countries include the blue carbon into their Nationally Determined Contributions, however most of countries have not reported coastal blue carbon in national inventories as the United States and Australia have done on account of them lacking qualified national activity data and an assembly of local emission factors (Yona et al, 2020). Sub-national policies and actions on blue carbon without waiting for instruction from higher authorities should be the choice for dealing locally with the climate crisis (Wedding et al, 2021), and incorporating coastal blue carbon into inventories is essential for the achievement of this goal. Compared to the national inventory, sub-national inventory reporting requires detailed tier 3 data from remote sensing and on-site studies that is not only informative for climate mitigation but is also informative of land-use changes, biodiversity conservation, industrial development, and so on.…”

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Incorporating coastal blue carbon into subnational greenhouse gas inventories

Zhao

Song

et al. 2022

Front. Mar. Sci.

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The climate mitigation potential of coastal blue carbon including mangroves, seagrasses and tidal marshes have been widely recognized, and guidelines for incorporating coastal wetlands into greenhouse gas inventories released by IPCC in 2014 make it possible to bring coastal blue carbon into multilevel climate governance regimes. However, the intricate guidelines and inadequate data block governments from accounting and reporting their coastal blue carbon in inventories. In this research, we integrated and simplified the equations and assumptions of IPCC inventory guidance on coastal wetlands, and took Hainan province of China as a case study by (1) formulating a land use change matrix from high resolution satellite imagery for the years of 2010 to 2020, (2) compiling dataset of emission factors for coastal wetlands of Hainan, and (3) estimating CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions from coastal wetlands in Hainan. We reveal that the mangroves’ area increased from 4,190.7 ha in 2010 to 4,644.1 ha in 2020, with a net increase of 483.9 ha from tidal flats and aquaculture ponds. The weighted average EFAGB and EFsoil of Hainan is 61.7 MgC ha-1 and 227.4 MgC ha-1, respectively,estimated from peer-reviewed literature in both Chinese and English. The annual average net CO2 emission of mangroves of Hainan is -26974.3 MgCO2e yr-1. CO2 emission from mangrove deforestation and N2O emission from shrimp aquaculture in coastal aeras may offset the efforts of coastal wetlands conservation and restoration. Countries and sub-country regions are encouraged to bring coastal blue carbon into greenhouse gases inventories as soon as possible, and to take a bottom-up strategy to initiate the task at a local level.

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Incorporating coastal blue carbon into subnational greenhouse gas inventories

Zhao

Song

et al. 2022

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…"Blue carbon" provides an obvious starting point for such an approach, as it builds on decades of experience-good and bad-in the governance of coastal conservation areas and carbon sinks. Some regional-level "blue carbon" audits and action plans already draw on the participation of a wide range of stakeholders (Porter et al, 2020), or integrate "blue carbon" into sub-national climate strategies that sanction the involvement of a diverse set of local actors (Wedding et al, 2021; see also Duarte et al, 2017). The road is less clear for marine CDR options with a more oblique link to conservation, and were the potential for far-reaching environmental impacts is much more significant but also much more uncertain.…”

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Hugging the Shore: Tackling Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal as a Local Governance Problem

Lezaun

2021

Front. Clim.

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This Perspective explores the local governance of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Proposals to enhance the ability of oceans and marine ecosystems to absorb atmospheric CO2 are often discussed as examples of “geoengineering,” but this framing obscures the site-specific nature of most of the suggested interventions. The Perspective outlines some of the key local dimensions of marine CDR as currently imagined, and suggests a framework for increasing local participation in its assessment. Robust processes of local participation are essential to address the place-based conflicts that are bound to emerge if any of the proposed methods of CO2 removal is ever deployed at scale.

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“…The inclusion of blue carbon sequestration in climate policies, from the local to international level, is emerging in tandem with the call for additional localized data on carbon sequestration Negotiation of debt for nature swaps, toward sovereign empowerment and capacity building. (Unsworth et al, 2018;Moritsch et al, 2021;Wedding et al, 2021). The utilization of existing laws and policies to address climate change challenges provide opportunities for advancement (Garmestani et al, 2019).…”

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“…The utilization of existing laws and policies to address climate change challenges provide opportunities for advancement (Garmestani et al, 2019). For example, the role of a policy landscape ripe for inclusion of blue carbon strategies is at the forefront of subnational efforts to reduce carbon emissions pursuant to California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Wedding et al, 2021). The under-utilization of existing environmental laws is implied to be the result of a lack of understanding by policymakers of how socio-ecological resilience can be integrated into current environmental governance frameworks (MacLean, 2020).…”

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A Framework for Operationalizing Climate-Just Ocean Commitments Under the Paris Agreement

Reiter¹,

Cheng²,

Pouponneau³

et al. 2021

Front. Clim.

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Building on the considerable momentum from the commencement of the Decade of Ocean Science, the Ocean-climate nexus will be center stage at COP26. Many countries are including blue carbon Ocean commitments in their second round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and there is a need to harmonize the science, law, and economics of Ocean-based climate mitigation and adaptation strategies to enable implementation of Ocean commitments under the Paris Agreement. In addition, consistent with the Paris Agreement preamble's focus on human rights, the rights and empowerment of vulnerable and marginalized communities, and intergenerational equity, the design and implementation of Ocean commitments in NDCs should be centered on considerations of climate justice (“climate-just Ocean commitments”). The challenges and opportunities inherent in implementing climate-just Ocean commitments require a comprehensive review of the latest innovations in blue carbon scientific research, the enabling conditions necessary for uptake of this science into policies and decision making, and the financial structures needed to equitably finance Ocean nature-based solutions. Responding to this need, we propose that a framework is needed to support the inclusion of blue carbon sequestration potential in ambitious national and subnational action. The proposed framework should center on the intersectionality of climate justice with the three key layers essential to implementation of Ocean commitments—science, law, and economics—where traditional and local ecological knowledge is valued on par with western science, law and policy centers on vulnerable communities, and financial mechanisms respect national sovereignty, value local cultures, and support sustainable economic development.

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Incorporating blue carbon sequestration benefits into sub-national climate policies

Cited by 50 publications

References 22 publications

Incorporating coastal blue carbon into subnational greenhouse gas inventories

Incorporating coastal blue carbon into subnational greenhouse gas inventories

Hugging the Shore: Tackling Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal as a Local Governance Problem

A Framework for Operationalizing Climate-Just Ocean Commitments Under the Paris Agreement

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