C-BLUES
The C-BLUES project is a Horizon Europe initiative focused on advancing knowledge, understanding, policy implementation and management of blue carbon ecosystems through EU-China cooperation.
- Project period
- -
- Funders
- Horizon Europa
- Total budget (NOK)
- 48,000,000
- External webpages
- c-blues.eu
- Contact persons
Christian Lindemann
Kasper Hancke
Hege Gundersen
Saskia Trubbach
Silje Graffer
Sindre Langaas
Ståle Mygland
About the project
C-BLUES aims to significantly advance the understanding of blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) such as seagrasses, tidal marshes, mangroves, and macroalgae.
The project will engage with the scientific community, climate and coastal policy makers and the wider civil society to disseminate the knowledge generated, raise awareness of BCEs and build capacity for blue carbon research inclusion.
C-BLUES will effectively impact national and international climate policy work so that BCEs more prominently are included in reporting and management actions.
It has three main objectives:
- Developing new scientific knowledge to reduce uncertainty and improve blue carbon reporting under the UNFCCC
- Contributing to the revision of the 2013 IPCC Wetlands Supplement to better include coastal wetlands in national GHG inventories
- Raising awareness about blue carbon’s role in global climate policy.
The project will produce spatial maps, best practices, and standard procedures, enhance carbon emissions and sequestration quantification, model sequestration capacity, assess carbon stock changes and GHG emissions, review legal frameworks, and evaluate the integration of coastal wetlands into national reporting mechanisms.