2. What is blue carbon?
• Blue Carbon includes ocean blue
carbon that represents carbon
stored in open ocean carbon
pools.
• Coastal Blue Carbon – The carbon
stored in tidal wetlands, which
includes tidally influenced forests,
mangroves, tidal marshes and
seagrass meadows, within soil,
living biomass and non living
biomass carbon pools.
9. Opportunity: regulation to enhance
• Restoration &
conservation
• Public awareness
• Capacity building
• Database
Sustainable
Development Goals
• SDG 14
• Target 14.2
KEMENKO/
BAPPENAS
MHA
MOEF
MMAF
CSO
Paris Agreement
• NAMA, REDD, JMA
• NDC, BUR
Subnational
Source: Murdiyarso 2018
10. • Mangroves have
disproportionately large C
storage, hence huge potential for
CC mitigation
• REDD+ could be one of the
mechanisms that Indonesia can
pursue to include Blue Carbon
• The existing FREL may be
improved to accommodate the
inclusion of Blue Carbon
Concluding remarks
Scientific community has recognized the wide range of services that coastal ecosystems can provide
Salt marshes, mangroves, and seagrass meadows are unique ecosystems that support aquatic biodiversity, provide hatching ground and nursery for fish, protect coastal zones from storm surges, wave and tsunami
They are also large storehouse of coastal Blue Carbon
The rates of C burial of these coastal ecosystems is significantly higher than any terrestrial ecosystems
Notably, mangrove is capable of capturing and storing C, as large as five times than lowland tropical forests that are mostly reside in sediments
Intact coastal BC has to be protected for CC mitigation and human well-being.
However, mangroves are among the most threatened and rapidly disappearing natural ecosystem
Deforestation rate of around 13 Mha of mangrove, mainly for aquaculture development is well above 1% per year
GHG emissions due to unsustainable coastal development is up to 1 Billion tons of CO2-eq per annum or 20% of emission from global deforestation
It is resulting a global economic loss of US$ 6-40 B
Mangrove conversions also leave millions of hectares of abandoned and degraded coastal wetlands