Environmental Protection (EP Online)

Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) will lead an initiative to help coastal wetlands restoration and protection projects issue carbon credits on the international voluntary carbon market for the first time. RAE, a national advocacy organization dedicated to coastal and estuarine habitat restoration, will lead a technical working group that will develop requirements for quantifying and crediting the greenhouse gas benefits of several new types of wetlands conservation projects under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program. “Coastal wetlands hold vast, untapped potential to trap atmospheric carbon, particularly carbon dioxide, one of the chief culprits behind global warming and climate change,” said Steve Emmett-Mattox, who will oversee the project as RAE’s senior director of Strategic Planning and Programs. For more, click here.  For more information on RAE's activities, go here.