National Blue Carbon Strategy

The National Blue Carbon Strategy establishes a framework that integrates actions related to the management, conservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of blue carbon ecosystems and wetlands with carbon capture potential to promote a model that benefits communities that directly depend on the ecosystem services they provide. The strategy responds to a mandate contained in the National Wetlands Policy 2017-2030 and compiles various visions and recommendations from sectors that have promoted actions to establish a blue carbon model for Costa Rica over a decade. Costa Rica has more than 307,315 hectares of registered wetlands and 52,802 hectares of mangrove ecosystems, with approximately 14,336 hectares with potential to become blue carbon reservoirs.