Information session on the e-course: Governing Blue Carbon Finance

Дата публикации: 10-08-2026 06:38:07

Information session on the e-course: Governing Blue Carbon Finance
Christian Mortelliti
Mon, 10/08/2026 - 13:38

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Blue carbon ecosystems including mangroves, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes are vital nature-based solutions for climate mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and coastal livelihoods across Asia and the Pacific. The region contains around half of the world’s mangroves and one quarter of its seagrass meadows, which provide significant benefits for coastal protection, fisheries, food security, tourism and local economies. However, these ecosystems remain under-protected and underfinanced.  
Between 1996 and 2020, the region lost approximately 3,338 km² of mangroves, while conservation and restoration efforts continue to face gaps in technical knowledge, monitoring, governance, policy, finance, tenure, stakeholder engagement and benefit sharing. These challenges are particularly significant for national and subnational governments, coastal communities and resource users, who are directly involved in or affected by ecosystem-management decisions. Addressing these challenges requires an integrated approach linking ecological understanding, credible carbon assessment, enabling governance and policy, appropriate financing and inclusive stakeholder engagement. 
The Governing Blue Carbon Finance e-learning course has been developed by Landscape Alliance and ESCAP in response to these capacity development needs under the ESCAP project 'Enhancing investments for equitable and accelerated climate action in the post-COVID-19 recovery.' It leverages the Landscape Alliance’s enhanced Blue Carbon Deck transformative partnership platform, along with further networking opportunities planned to contribute to the platform. The e-course introduces six interconnected areas: mangrove blue carbon, measuring and monitoring carbon, governance and policy, financing mechanisms, stakeholder engagement and equitable benefit sharing, and integration of the mangrove blue carbon value chain.  
The information session will provide an overview of the e-course, demonstrate how to access it and discuss its application for institutional and professional capacity development.  
Objectives 
Introduce and disseminate the Landscape Alliance-ESCAP e-learning course on Governing Blue Carbon Finance, including its purpose, structure, learning outcomes and course sections. 
Highlight the interconnected ecological, technical, governance, policy, financing, stakeholder-engagement and value-chain dimensions of the mangrove blue carbon value chain. 
Explore opportunities to integrate the course into government, academic, professional and civil society capacity development programmes. 
Gather feedback on priority training needs and identify further opportunities for related regional cooperation and peer exchange. 






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General
The sixth session of the Committee on Transport is scheduled to be held from 12 to 13 November 2020.
The secretariat is monitoring the rapidly evolving situation with regard to the COVID-19 outbreak and is putting into place measures to mitigate public health risks associated with mass gatherings. The secretariat continues to receive guidance from the World Health Organization, the authorities of the host country of ESCAP and the United Nations Secretariat.
Decisions on the schedule and modality of the Committee session to ensure the safety and well-being of all participants will be communicated as soon as practicable.


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Delegations are kindly requested to submit letters of credentials to Mr. Weimin Ren, Director, Transport Division, ESCAP, United Nations Building, Rajadamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200, Thailand, Fax: (66-2) 288-1067, 288-3050, at their earliest convenience prior to 1 October 2018.. Letters of credential should be addressed to the Executive Secretary of the ESCAP and emailed to escap-ttd@un.org.
Members of delegations are kindly reminded to bring official identification with them, duly signed by the appropriate authorities of their respective Governments/Agencies/Organizations, and provide them to the Secretariat staff at the registration counter located on the ground floor of the UNCC along with a copy of the letter of credentials indicating their appointment to the delegation.


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Participants are requested to register and obtain a visitor’s badge with ID picture on the first day of the meeting, i.e. Monday, 19 November 2018 between 08.00 hours and 09.00 hours. This is done at the Registration Counter located on the ground floor of the UNCC. Participants who are not able to register during the time indicated above are requested to do so immediately upon their arrival at UNCC and before going to the conference room. This procedure is important for security reason and will also ensure that all participants’ names appear on the list of participants.
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In conformity with standard United Nations security procedures, all participants must complete a mandatory online registration at https://meetings.unescap.org/. Participants are encouraged to complete this procedure well in advance of the meeting and no later than 1 October 2018. To facilitate the process, participants are encouraged to submit their photo in advance.
For identification and security reasons, all participants are requested to wear their meeting badges at all times when on the United Nations compound, and also during the meeting and at social functions. The loss of a meeting badge should be communicated to the Conference Management Unit, located on the ground floor of the UNCC behind the registration counter, so that a new one can be issued immediately.


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Participants wishing to circulate any papers or literature at the meeting are requested to consult staff from the secretariat servicing the meeting for the necessary arrangements.


Daily subsistence allowance

ESCAP does not provide financial assistance for participation in the 5th session of the Committee on Transport. However, it does cover the travel expenses of officials participating in the workshop on cross-border co-deployment of fibre optic infrastructure along road and rail networks. In that regard, the following shall apply:
Depending on which of the above applies, participants whose travel is sponsored (or partly sponsored) by ESCAP will receive a DSA to cover all costs associated with their participation in the meeting, including accommodation, meals and local transport while in Bangkok. A voucher to be cashed at the bank located on the ESCAP premises will be given to participants. Participants will receive their vouchers against submittal of a copy of their passports, copy of their air-tickets and the original boarding pass(es) for the flight(s) to Bangkok. To facilitate the issuance of vouchers, eligible participants are kindly requested to come with read-made copies of their passports. To date, the DSA for Bangkok is Thai Baht 7,150 (about US$ 216). Please note that this amount is subject to change without prior notice.
Participants who are unable to stay for the entire duration of the meeting are requested to inform the secretariat as soon as possible after their arrival so that the DSA can be adjusted accordingly.
In those cases where the participation costs are borne by ESCAP, the secretariat will provide only travel and DSA as expressed and will not assume responsibility for any other expenditures, including the following:
You are representing your Government only at the 5th session of the Committee on Transport: ESCAP does not provide any financial support and participation is on a self-financing basis.
You are representing your Government only at the workshop on co-deployment: ESCAP provides air-ticket and Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) for two nights (i.e. 21 and 22 November 2018 depending on flight schedule.
You are representing your Government at both the 5th session of the Committee on Transport and the workshop on co-deployment: ESCAP provides air-ticket and DSA for two nights (i.e. 21 and 22 November 2018 depending on flight schedule and participants have to cover three nights on a self-financing basis (i.e. 18 to 20 November 2018).
all expenses in the home country incidental to travel abroad, including expenditure for visa, medical examination, inoculations and other such miscellaneous items and internal travel to and from the airport of arrival and departure in the home country;
salary and related allowances for the participants during the period of the meeting;
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compensation in the event of death or disability of participants in connection with attending the meeting;
any loss of or damage to personal property of participants while attending the meeting or losses or damages claimed by third parties as a result of any negligence on the part of the participants;
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