BLUE CATALYST FUND

Transforming coastal futures: accelerating high-quality Blue Carbon projects

The Blue Catalyst Fund supports the development of high-quality blue carbon projects with technical capacity-building and early-stage equitable finance that allows critical coastal ecosystems and communities to thrive.

Get involved

Accelerate the future of blue carbon. Apply for funding now or learn more about how our programme can support your project.

The challenge

Coastal ecosystems are true climate, nature, and people champions, but they are disappearing fast and investment remains low.

Carbon markets offer a major opportunity to fund ecosystem protection at scale, however only 0.3% credit issuance are from blue carbon. This is because the financial, technical, and regulatory barriers keeping the blue carbon market small are structural. Closing the market gap requires more than funding, it requires building the enabling infrastructure.

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more carbon sequestered per hectare in coastal ecosystems than in terrestrial forests.

NOAA

of coastal wetlands have already been lost.

IPCC

of global fisheries species depend on coastal wetlands.

NOAA

400

million tons of CO₂ are released annually due to mangrove degradation.

DONATO ET AL.

0.34

of total voluntary carbon market (VCM) issuances are accounted for by blue carbon.

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$65b

annual cost savings from reduced damage due to extreme weather, making them a powerful and cost-effective tool for climate adaptation.

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Our solution

The Blue Catalyst Fund is an end-to-end program designed to de-risk, finance, and scale high-integrity blue carbon for coastal communities. It provides early-stage funding, technical support and transaction advisory services to fast-track high-quality projects towards investment.

Technical assistance from leading blue carbon experts to support projects from pre-feasibility all the way to accreditation and follow-on investment

Capacity building through the Blue Carbon Academy to develop local technical expertise

Early-stage catalytic funding for project developers

Tailored transaction support to fast-track projects to investment

Impact Goals

By 2035, the Blue Catalyst Fund aims to protect or restore 150,000 hectares of coastal and marine ecosystems, avoid or remove 32 million tons of CO2e over the projects’ lifetime, and unlock $275M of private investment for coastal ecosystems and communities.

Get involved

Accelerate the future of blue carbon. Apply for funding now or learn more about how our programme can support your project.

Who we are

The Blue Catalyst Fund will be delivered by a market leading multidisciplinary team that can provide the comprehensive services required for projects to successfully raise investment and deliver maximum impact.

Fair Carbon

CO-LEAD

A Swiss-based nonprofit accelerating the protection and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems by eliminating technical, financial, and policy barriers that restrict the growth of the blue carbon market.