Financing Blue Carbon with Insurance

Mangroves in the Philippines. Photo by Esther Anne F. Bueno.

The Restoration Insurance Service Company (RISCO) is an innovative finance project aimed at investing in blue carbon in marine and coastal ecosystems, particularly in the Philippines. The project is part of the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance and aims to protect 4,000 hectares of mangrove forest through conservation and restoration efforts in partnership with local communities.

RISCO’s innovative approach involves identifying areas where mangroves provide high flood reduction benefits and modeling the value of those benefits.

This innovative finance project highlights the potential for financial solutions to address environmental challenges, such as the protection and restoration of mangrove ecosystems. By partnering with local communities and generating revenue from blue carbon credits, RISCO aims to create a sustainable model for mangrove conservation and restoration.

Learn more here.

Mapping Tool for Mangrove Restoration Potential

Mangroves restoration site in Bali, Indonesia. Photo by Conservation International.

Do you know where to focus on mangrove restoration? Recognizing this enormous potential of mangrove restoration, the experts from the Nature Conservancy, IUCN, and the University of Cambridge, merged innovative data to create an unique mapping tool, to allow decision-makers to identify areas for mangrove forest restoration.

With the new interactive map, the potential for restoring more than 800,000 ha of mangroves will be possible. Find more details in this link.

Nature is Speaking

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Have you ever imagined the voices of our nature? If nature could speak, what would it say?

In “Nature is Speaking” campaign launched by Conservation International in 2015, people were invited to listen to nature. Their message to humanity is simple, that ‘nature doesn’t need people; but people need nature’.

There are 12 films including mother nature and other nature elements, such as forest, water, ice, mountain, coral reefs, flower, voiced by celebrities who donated their time and voice.

The series in here.