Institutional Obstacles and Countermeasures to Improve the Chinese Ocean Carbon Sink Trading Market

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(13), P. 5673 - 5673

Published: July 3, 2024

Global climate change is a great challenge shared by human society today. All countries are actively carrying out carbon emissions trading to cope with increasingly serious environmental problems. Ocean sink an important part of the market and has become new academic hot spot. It urgent construct ocean mechanism that meets China’s national conditions. The goal this study determine how improve using research methods such as normative analysis, comparative case studies. shows there outstanding problems, unclear property rights imperfect relevant laws regulations, in Chinese market. In order solve these sinks should be clarified, related improved, construction financial system for further developed. At same time, it necessary strengthen supervision encourage public participate. According results study, long way go towards improving market, requiring joint efforts government, society, making greater contributions response global change.

Language: Английский

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Addressing the Policy Gaps and Challenges to Originating High‐Quality Blue Carbon Projects in the Asia‐Pacific Region: A Systematic Evidence Synthesis Bolstered by Practitioner Consultation

Published: July 18, 2024

The Asia-Pacific region contains almost half of the planet’s coastal carbon-sequestering (blue carbon) environments (mangroves, salt marshes, seagrasses). These habitats are highly valuable to sequester carbon and mitigate climate change, but under threat throughout region, due in significant part an insufficient policy environment protect, restore, or create new wetlands/blue environments. Using a systematic evidence synthesis we reviewed existing literature on blue policy, found that gaps challenges fall three themes, “Land Tenure Ownership”, “Funding Protecting Blue Carbon Habitat”, “Conflicting Priorities Jurisdictions”, with two overarching issues, inconsistent recognition rights indigenous peoples local communities (IPLCs) women, sea-level rise. This study makes recommendations ensure high-quality projects through improving equitable outcomes, particularly for women IPLCs, reduce barriers implementing projects. include gender sensitive participatory mapping along registry ownership extensive IPLC consultation resolve uncertainties. Recommendations community level benefits beyond individual land owners important address inequity ownership. Where changes rise intentional barrier removal, should be retained by landowner; otherwise, there is little incentive undertake Due limited income results from some credit payments, other crediting non-market methods can considered supplement landowners’ incomes encourage habitat protection. Conflicting priorities between authorities responsible managing wetlands resolved restructuring/streamlining collaborative workshops. Some will require policies amending delegated legislation.

Language: Английский

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Blue carbon habitats in Aotearoa New Zealand—opportunities for conservation, restoration, and carbon sequestration

Restoration Ecology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 32(7)

Published: July 30, 2024

Coastal marine habitats (i.e. mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses) have a high capacity for carbon sequestration (termed “blue carbon”) the potential to reduce effects of greenhouse gas emissions. However, blue historically decreased as consequence land conversion, coastal development, pollution are under threat in many locations. Restoration these can reverse historic losses generate credits through increased sequestration. With long coastline, we hypothesized that there would be significant opportunities Aotearoa New Zealand. Results revealed estuaries areas contain approximately 20,932 ha saltmarsh, 30,533 mangrove, 61,340 seagrass, estimated sequester total 57,800 tC/year. A further 87,861 was potentially suitable projects via tidal restoration, which 56,482 saltmarsh restoration (equivalent 60,435 tC yr if restored), 17,291 mangroves (26,455 tC/year), 14,087 seagrass (4790 tC/year). Both existing extent opportunity varied throughout country, with greater some regions than others. Nationwide, at 91,680 −1 all were restored. Carbon generated by could traded on market Aotearoa, revenue landowners, provide an additional pathway meet domestic international climate change targets, result diversity other ecological, social, cultural co‐benefits from restoration.

Language: Английский

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Scale‐sensitive marine law and policy design: Towards ecosystem‐based management across spatial and temporal scales

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Energy and Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(5)

Published: Sept. 1, 2024

Abstract Ecosystem‐based management (EBM) is promoted in scholarly literature and international policy as a way to improve marine ecosystem outcomes, through the integration of law policies across sectors, communities, scales. A legal framework that supports EBM at appropriate temporal spatial scales fundamental successful deployment EBM. However, typically fragmented misaligned, with range laws, policies, governance institutions, sectoral frameworks applying different spaces working on varying timescales. In this focus article, we draw our comprehensive study Aotearoa New Zealand's analyze challenges scale mismatches present for implementation, focusing key areas fisheries, environment, conservation, Indigenous rights interests. We identify opportunities better align dynamics, revealing critical lessons imperative scale‐sensitive design, globally. This article categorized under: Policy Economics > Research Development Governance Regulation Climate Environment Ecosystem Services

Language: Английский

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Legal pathways for China’s blue carbon conservation: a perspective of synergizing ocean and climate rule of law

Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: Nov. 26, 2024

Blue carbon serves as a significant natural sink and presents substantial opportunities for greenhouse gas mitigation actions. This study first elucidates the importance of blue conservation its basis in international law, then analyzes progress shortcomings China’s efforts protection areas legislation, enforcement, judicial practices related to ocean governance climate change mitigation. Finally, from perspective coordinating governance, this paper proposes legal pathways improve conservation. In terms it advocates explicit inclusion concept “blue carbon” frameworks governing clarification status credits”. regulatory recommends developing detailed implementation plan integrate into China Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) system, designating body trading, establishing multi-stakeholder mechanism involving government, market, society. realm, suggests issuing interpretations clarify scope, prerequisites, “purchasing credit” prevent such purchases becoming “free pass” that could damage marine ecosystems

Language: Английский

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