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tidal carbon is Calling all owners of tidal wetland systems:

What Qualifies as a Tidal Wetland System? Tidal forests (such as mangroves), Tidal Marshes, and Seagrass Meadows.

By choosing to partner with Tidal Carbon you receive top-tier consulting to turn your wetlands into an income-producing, carbon sequestering project using the following tidal wetland restoration project activities below:

a) Creating, restoring and/or managing hydrological conditions (e.g., removing tidal barriers, improving hydrological connectivity, restoring tidal flow to wetlands or lowering water levels on impounded wetlands)

b) Altering sediment supply (e.g., beneficial use of dredge material or diverting river sediments to sediment-starved areas)

c) Changing salinity characteristics (e.g., restoring tidal flow to tidally restricted areas)

d) Improving water quality (e.g., reducing nutrient loads leading to improved water clarity to expand seagrass meadows, recovering tidal and other hydrologic flushing and exchange, or reducing nutrient residence time)

e) (Re-)introducing native plant communities (e.g., reseeding or replanting)

f) Improving management practice(s) (e.g., removing invasive species, reduced grazing)

eligibility criteria to become a project developer:

#1: The tidal wetlands are free of any land use that could be displaced outside the project area by.

a) one of the following below:

i.) The project area has been abandoned for two or more years prior to the project start date; or

ii.) Use of the project area for commercial purposes (i.e., trade) is not profitable as a result of salinity intrusion, market forces or other factors. In addition, timber harvesting in the baseline scenario within the project area does not occur; or

iii.) Degradation of additional wetlands for new agricultural sites within the country will not occur or is prohibited by enforced law.

b) Is under a land use that could be displaced outside the project area), although in such case baseline emissions from this land use must not be accounted for, and where degradation of additional wetlands for new agricultural/aquacultural sites within the country will not occur or is prohibited by enforced law.

c) Is under a land use that will continue at a similar level of service or production during the project crediting period (e.g., reed or hay harvesting, collection of fuelwood, subsistence harvesting).

The project proponent must demonstrate (a), (b) or (c) above based on verifiable information such as laws and bylaws, management plans, annual reports, annual accounts, market studies, government studies or land use planning reports and documents.

#2: Live tree vegetation may be present in the project area and may be subject to carbon stock changes (e.g., due to harvesting) in both the baseline and project scenarios.

#3: The prescribed burning of herbaceous and shrub aboveground biomass (cover burns) as a project activity may occur.

#4: Where the project proponent intends to claim emission reductions from reduced frequency of peat fires, project activities must include a combination of rewetting and fire management.

#5: Where the project proponent intends to claim emission reductions from reduced frequency of peat fires, it must be demonstrated that a threat of frequent on-site fires exists, and the overwhelming cause of ignition of the organic soil is anthropogenic (e.g., drainage of the peat, arson).

#6: In strata with organic soil, afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) activities must be combined with rewetting.

wetland project disqualifiers:

Our methodology is Not applicable under the following conditions:

Project activities qualify as IFM or REDD.
Baseline activities include commercial forestry.
Project activities lower the water table, unless the project converts open water to tidal wetlands, or improves the hydrological connection to impounded waters.
Hydrological connectivity of the project area with adjacent areas leads to a significant increase in GHG emissions outside the project area.
Project activities include the burning of organic soil.
Nitrogen fertilizer(s), such as chemical fertilizer or manure, are applied in the project area during the project crediting period.