Blue carbon ecosystems play a vital role in combating climate change, enhancing biodiversity, carbon sequestration and protecting coastal communities. Yet, these critical ecosystems face a significant challenge: gaining trust and investment from the financial world.

While many believe there is abundant financial capital for blue carbon projects, the reality is more complex. A lack of trust, transparency, and alignment with the investment sector often leaves these transformative climate solutions underfunded. Concerns about green/blue washing and reliability further hinder progress.

At TogetherForTheBetterGood, we are committed to addressing these barriers by building trust, fostering transparency, and creating meaningful connections between blue carbon ecosystems and global investors.

We adhere to internationally recognized frameworks that provide clear guidelines for ensuring credibility, accountability, and sustainability in blue carbon initiatives.
These include a.o.:

• – The Core Carbon Principles
  by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM).
• – High-Quality Blue Carbon Principles
  by the Ocean Risk & Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), of which we are proud to be an early adopter.

– TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures),
as an active member of this global initiative.

These standards guide our mission to:

• – Eliminate green/blue washing and fraud.
• – Strengthen governance and accountability.
• – Build public trust in blue carbon ecosystems and blue natural capital.
• – Establish robust monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) environment.

The financial services industry operates under strict regulations to manage its inherent complexities and risks. Similarly, blue carbon ecosystem projects require robust structures to ensure data reliability throughout their lifespans. However, these two worlds—finance and conservation—often struggle to understand each other’s language.

The Blue Governance Framework™ bridges the gap between two distinct worlds: conservation and finance. While blue carbon projects need operational oversight and funding, investors demand transparency, data reliability and risk management.
By integrating our expertise in financial services with our practical experience in blue carbon projects, the Blue Governance Framework™ ensures projects can be managed effectively and transparently, with trust across all stakeholders.

This framework fosters collaboration between:
– Local and Indigenous communities, NGOs, researchers, and governments.
– Investors, funders, and verifiers.

The Blue Governance Framework™ incorporates every critical element of a successful blue carbon project:

1. The Project: At the heart of the framework.

2. Stakeholders: Including governments, Indigenous and local communities, NGOs, and scientific researchers, supported through stakeholder management services.

3. Funders and Investors: Providing essential resources to sustain and let blue ecosystems thrive.

4. Independent Verifiers: Ensuring credibility and trust.

5. Core Goals: Enhancing biodiversity, reducing carbon emissions, and creating co-benefits for people and local economies.

6. Transparency: Clear reporting and traceability of funds.

7. Integrated Management: Connecting all flows, processes, and relationships across stakeholders.