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Blue carbon will be the next frontier of carbon crediting

10 Nov 2022


Carbon credits created by offset projects such as reforestation, soil sequestration by regenerative agriculture practice, avoided deforestation and direct air capture have become relatively well known, but a new carbon crediting method still in its infancy is quickly gaining popularity and attention — blue carbon. 

Blue carbon refers to carbon sequestration approaches that use oceans and coastal ecosystems as carbon sinks. The most popular projects so far have mostly focused on mangroves in areas including Indonesia and South America. In 2021, Apple with Conservation International partnered on the Philippines Palawan Protection Project to protect 110,000 acres of mangroves. And in Colombia, an 11,000-acre mangrove in Cispata became the first to have its entire carbon sequestration potential entered into the carbon market and verified by Verra.


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