Background

Mangroves, tidal marshes, seagrass, seaweed and other coastal and marine ecosystems capture and store ‘blue carbon’ – which holds exciting potential for wetlands-rich countries to meet their national climate goals. But to counter the rapidly escalating threats to these fragile and under-researched ecosystems, we urgently need to advance our understanding of them through knowledge-sharing and collaboration.

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What is Blue Carbon Deck?

The Blue Carbon Deck is a Transformative Partnership Platform (TPP) designed to bring together the multiple initiatives around blue carbon to become the go-to source on blue carbon for researchers, civil society and practitioners working in coastal communities.

Hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), the platform will ensure that programmes and projects are guided by the latest science while maintaining a focus on the particular challenges faced by people and foundation ecosystems. Having established a long-term and flourishing network of individuals and agencies across the globe, CIFOR-ICRAF is uniquely suited to hosting this new collaboration.

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Daniel Murdiyarso

Senior Associate
Theme 5: Climate Change, Energy and Low Carbon Development (CCE)

i-Mangrove is a spatially explicit decision-support dashboard that enables transparent measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of mangrove blue carbon. The dashboard integrates consistent geospatial datasets and analytics to assess mangrove extent, change, emissions and restoration potential across multiple spatial scales.

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Event

Blue carbon economic value and Indonesia’s leadership

14 October 2025, 12.00 – 17.00 GMT+7, The National Library of Indonesia, Jakarta

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Stories

How to get carbon markets right

Carbon markets have been variously lauded as a critical part of addressing the climate crisis, and criticized as empty greenwash. Either way, they’re moving some serious cash: the global carbon credit market traded value was almost USD 1 trillion in 2022, and is tipped to reach USD 2.68 trillion by 2028.

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