Day: Wednesday, June 27, 2018.Time: 10:00 - 11:30 am (Costa Rican time, special time)Check the time according to your location: http://bit.ly/2I8fwnB
Agenda
Introduction. Ana María Majano. Secretariat Coordinator, LEDS LAC Platform.
Development and state of the art of blue carbon initiatives: from the global to the national level. Tania E. Romero G. Researcher, Ramsar Regional Center for Training and Research on Wetlands in the Western Hemisphere (CREHO), and Environmental Specialist, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the REDD program in Panama. | Download presentation
Colombian experiences in the methodological development of REDD+ type projects in mangrove ecosystems. Paula Cristina Sierra-Correa. Head of Research and Information for Marine and Coastal Management, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (INVEMAR), Colombia. | Download presentation
About the webinar
The term Blue Carbon refers to the carbon stored in marine-coastal ecosystems. It is estimated that these ecosystems sequester up to five times more carbon than terrestrial forests, making their proper management an important climate change mitigation measure, with benefits also associated with adaptation, biodiversity conservation and food security, among many other issues. The measurement of blue carbon stocks is a fundamental element for the development of policies and projects aimed at linking the sustainable management of mangroves and other marine-coastal ecosystems to global mitigation efforts, taking advantage of opportunities to channel resources from mechanisms such as REDD+ and carbon markets.
This webinar will present an overview of the state of the art of blue carbon initiatives at the international and national level, their actors and genesis, as well as two experiences in the Latin American region in the development of projects in this field. The case of INVEMAR in Colombia, which has developed methodologies for REDD+ projects in mangrove ecosystems and the work of the Ministry of Environment of El Salvador in conjunction with national and international partners in the Bay of Jiquilisco and the Jaltepeque estuary in El Salvador, where a process of national capacity building was developed to estimate carbon stocks and fluxes at the ecosystem and landscape level in mangroves and surrounding land covers of the lower Lempa.
The webinar will be held at Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the LEDS LAC Platform Secretariat: info@ledslac.org.
About the panelists
CShe holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology with a major in Animal Biology from the University of Panama and a Master's degree in International Studies in Tropical Aquatic Ecology from the University of Bremen and the Center for Tropical Marine Research in Germany (ZMT). Tania E. Romero worked as an environmental specialist for UNDP where she also led the carbon measurement component of the project "Protection of Carbon Stocks and Sinks in Mangroves and Protected Areas of Panama". She also collaborated in the development of the "Central American Manual for the measurement of blue carbon in mangroves". of CATIE. Continues withas an environment specialist at UNDP and She is a researcher at the Ramsar Regional Center, where she is advising the carbon measurement process in the Gulf of Fonseca, within the project "Improvement of Coastal Watersheds and Means of Access to Water".ida" USAID / IUCN.She is a marine biologist with a PhD in climate change adaptation based on marine ecosystems. She has a master's degree in geoinformatics and coastal zone management at ITC - Twente University, The Netherlands. She has been working at INVEMAR since 1996. She was part of the team that elaborated the coastal zone policy in Colombia. She is one of the leaders of the European Union Action on mangroves, seagrasses and local communities in the Caribbean (MAPCO). Since 2015 she is coordinator of the Regional Training Center for Latin America in the OTGA strategy of IODE-IOC-UNESCO and active researcher in Caribbean Marine Atlas linked with CLME + as an Atlas option to follow the state of the marine environment in the Caribbean region.