The science supporting carbon accounting in mangroves | Global Mangrove Alliance Webinar - Video

University of Queensland Professor Cath Lovelock is a global expert on the impacts of climate change on coastal wetlands and on the role of coastal ecosystems in mitigating climate change, or blue carbon.

In this webinar Prof Lovelock covers the basics of carbon accounting. She describes the three needs for carbon accounting: (1) National reporting and monitoring. Progress on carbon targets; (2) Projects for carbon credits. (3) Certification to support environmental claims, e.g. carbon neutrality. She describes the basics of measuring carbon, how to infer how carbon in the atmosphere is changing in response to human activities, like mangrove logging, based on measuring fluxes and stocks in the land and vegetation. She then moves onto the importance of deciding a project’s aims before starting and what importance considerations are for defining the aims. She explains how the science you need depends on your goals and the carbon standard you choose. Cath gets into how carbon accounting works to calculate the abatement (avoided carbon emissions) and the different fluxes that we need to measure.

The last part of the video is a Q&A with the audience that covers carbon accounting examples and in more detail.
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