The Nature-Based Credit Science Decoder Series: Blue Carbon
Carbon accounting methods that center on scientific best practices are the backbone of all rigorous approaches to carbon crediting. However, while decades of science have markedly increased the quality of carbon credits to date, research continues to evolve and improve project accounting.
The Scientific Best Practice Guides are a series of explainers on current scientific best practices and gaps for carbon projects developed in six emerging Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) pathways.
This second guide provides an overview of how high-quality Blue Carbon projects apply the latest scientific advancements and tools to create projects with high integrity in their definition of baseline scenarios, measurement and quantification of emissions reductions and removals, estimation of uncertainty, and monitoring of project activities and permanence. With this summary, buyers of high-quality carbon credits can better evaluate whether projects are effectively deploying rigorous scientific tools and approaches.
