GENERATING INCOME FOR COASTAL COMMUNITIES FROM SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF MANGROVE RESOURCES

摘要

With support from the Spanish-funded Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (RFLP), the Natural Resources and Environment group of the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific conducted a study on the potential to generate income from mangroves through carbon credit sales and payments for environmental services. The main finding of the work was that transaction costs associated with accreditation under widely accepted carbon standards are likely to be greater than the estimated income from carbon credit sales for all but large areas of mangroves or areas where planned conversion can be stopped and soil carbon is included in accounting frameworks. This situation may change as methodologies are developed to include additional carbon pools in accounting frameworks, but significant work needs to be done before this is achieved.