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As India’s carbon markets take shape, embedding methodological transparency is essential to ensure environmental integrity, restore buyer confidence
Despite vast coastlines and mangroves, India’s carbon market ignores blue carbon. A shift in focus could unlock powerful climate solutions.
Blue carbon ecosystems, despite covering less than 2 percent of the total ocean surface, account for nearly 50 percent of carbon burial in marine sediments. They provide many other co-benefits too, especially for Global South countries where they aid in food security, income generation, and disaster risk reduction. However, blue carbon ecosystems are rapidly degrading, and financing for their protection and restoration remains insufficient as the
