Event announcement: INCORPORATING COASTAL WETLANDS INTO INVENTORIES
Brisbane, Australia 12 –13 JULY 2018
Hosted by the Government of Australia and the University of Queensland
Read more in the flyer below
If you would like to attend, please send an expression of interest by email by 28 May to: zoe.sinclair@environment.gov.au
cc: bluecarbonpartnership@environment.gov.au
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Policymakers and technical officers from the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) met in Perth from 19 to 23 March 2018 for the inaugural Indian Ocean Blue Carbon Conference. Through a series of presentations and discussions, hands-on activities in the field at Rottnest Island and in the laboratory at the Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, participants built their understanding of practical ecosystem management and policy approaches to achieve climate mitigation and adaptation outcomes, as well as the important co-benefits coastal blue carbon ecosystems offer. The conference provided the impetus for IORA to develop a regional understanding of coastal blue carbon ecosystems and for countries to collaborate and coordinate efforts to reach shared goals.
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Australia and Fiji, with the support of partners SPREP and TNC, hosted a high-level event at COP23, Addressing the challenge of climate change – the importance of coastal blue carbon ecosystems in the Pacific.
Blue carbon ecosystems are important in the Pacific – mangroves cover 10-12 per cent of land area in the Federated States of Micronesia, PNG and Palau. The event highlighted existing Pacific efforts to protect and restore these ecosystems and involved discussion on opportunities to advance work further.
Five Partners participated in a panel discussion on blue carbon at Oceans Action Day, which took place at the UNFCCC COP23 on 11 November 2017. IUCN, Conservation International and Australia led the discussion which included panellists from Partnership members Indonesia and Costa Rica, as well as Fiji, Ecuador and Senegal.
The Partnership launched an eye-catching new poster and celebrated the last year’s achievements at a reception and poster exhibition organised by the Blue Carbon Initiative and Australia, at COP23.
The Partnership has released a new information product especially for policy makers. It can be downloaded in PDF here or from the Resources page of the website.
‘Coastal blue carbon: an introduction for policy makers’ describes some of the challenges and opportunities in developing policies and undertaking projects to protect and restore coastal blue carbon ecosystems. It provides a snapshot of the significant progress made in science, policy and practical action for coastal blue carbon ecosystems, and case studies highlighting projects, policy approaches and initiatives from around the world.
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Eleven visiting blue carbon fellows from the western Indian Ocean region visited Australia in November this year to participate in capacity building in the Blue Economy framework, with a focus on blue carbon.
CSIRO led the fellowship through the Australia Awards program and hosted fellows from the island nations of Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles. The visit provided the fellows with intensive classroom-based lectures from researchers and academics from all over Australia, including the CSIRO, the Universities of Western Australia, Melbourne and Queensland, Edith Cowan University, and Australian industry.
IPBC members Australia and Conservation International held an awareness-raising and knowledge sharing workshop on blue carbon last week in Tagaytay, Philippines. The workshop was held for government and academic members of the Climate Change Adaptation Technical Working Group (CCA TWG) of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF).
More than 60 participants gathered in Abu Dhabi, UAE for the second annual workshop of the International Partnership for Blue Carbon to track the Partnership’s progress and set future priorities.
The workshop, hosted by the Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative and the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, was held on 11-13 July 2017 and involved governments, regional and non-government organisations and research institutions.
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