Marine Climate Finance & Markets

Creation of new finance, markets, products, jobs and incentives for marine-climate initiatives. Includes: 1) Marine climate finance through generation of new funds, financial and insurance products and funding alliances to increase funding allocations to climate adaptation, mitigation and reparation; 2) Creation of blue carbon markets via generation of credits based on carbon sequestration potential of blue carbon ecosystems that have been restored or conserved. Credits are sold to industries to offset their emissions; and 3) Creation of blue carbon products which includes interventions that create and market new low-carbon products.

These types of interventions pose a range of risks and challenges. Resources exist to help identify and address these.

Useful resources

More resources can be found under ‘Marine and Coastal Restoration’ interventions.