On March 17th 2021, Transition Salt Spring and Raincoast Conservation Foundation hosted the Green and Blue Carbon Stewardship Workshop. This is the seventh of the series of videos from that workshop.
In this session, Robert Seaton and Joseph Pallant briefly discuss the tools (e.g. protocols) available to guide the inception of carbon projects and provide suggestions for potential next steps for implementing carbon projects in the Salish Sea. Both speakers agree that community collaboration and information sharing will be an essential component of this work. However, a key takeaway of this session was that the establishment of a carbon project should not be a goal. Rather, ecosystems should be managed for long term sustainability and resilience, and carbon sequestration should be an outcome of improving ecological functionality.
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