BLUE CARBON IMPACTS

PROJECT IMPACT MEASUREMENT

Establishing Community Patrolling Units (CPUs) in the villages to monitor and protect restored mangroves and conserving existing vegetation.
Setting-up Village Policy Initiatives on Village Spatial Plan (VSP), Mangrove Protected Area (MPA) and Village Regulation (VR) in the villages and successfully reduce the threats of illegal logging and land conversion to the level of below 5%.
Removing CO₂on mangrove restoration with average of 39.77 tCO₂-e ha^-1 yr^-1 (D₃₀ allometry) – 52.08 tCO₂-e ha^-1 yr^-1 (D₃₀²H allometry). This CO₂ calculation is designed based on minimum of 50% survival rate at year 20 plantation. The reference of SOC estimation (6.62 tCO₂-e ha^-1 yr^-1) is based on the Yagasu research publication (Suprayogi et al., 2022).

Changing attitude and increasing awareness of local community towards climate issues, coastal disaster prevention, and economic growth – natural base solutions.
Empowering women groups that lead to gender in social equality, not only in number women involved in climate action but also the spreading locations and scope of activities.
Involving youths as communication liaisons, so they become active agents of change and increase their inclusion in decision making in the village committees.
Understanding economic values of mangrove ecosystem that have direct and indirect values ranging from 648,320 to 45,922,675 USD to the villages.
Creating innovative economic activities: organic “batik” mangrove, eco-tourism, silvio-fishery, soft-crab farm, shrimp-paste production, dried/salted fish and mangrove food processing.
Leveraging additional funding supports such as village fund “dana desa” from governments, CSR fund from national companies and co-investment from private business

The stable condition of mangrove ecosystem in Aceh and North Sumatra supports the production of commercial biodiversity: 7 – 12 tons of crab, 3 – 5 tons of shrimp and 500 – 700 tons of fish per week for non-stop production through the year.

Link to blue carbon program, Yagasu has started to conduct coral reef transplantation, turtle breeding program and sea biota conservation. The carbon accumulation of seagrass meadows along the Yagasu’s mangrove project sites is also under exploration

AGROFORESTRY CARBON IMPACTS

Establishing Community Monitoring Unit (CMU) in the villages to monitor and protect restored ecosystem and conserving existing vegetation.
Preventing natural disaster (floods, land erosion and landslides) due to soil and water conservation.

Changing attitude and increasing awareness of local community towards climate issues, natural disaster prevention, and economic growth – natural base solutions.
Empowering women groups that lead to gender in social equality, not only in number women involved in climate action but also the spreading locations and scope of activities.
Involving youths as communication liaisons, so they become active agents of change and increase their inclusion in decision making in the village committees.
Our CCB study showed an increase of 14% family income after project implementation.
Setting-up Village Policy Initiatives on Village Spatial Plan (VSP), Ecosystem Protected Area (CPA) and Village Regulation (VR) in the villages and successfully reduce the threats of land conversion to the level of below 25%.

The stable condition of watershed ecosystem supports the production of 1.26 ton per ha high quality of organic coffee bean and other cash-crops.

Link to the SDGs

Yagasu’s project activities are directly designed to contribute to achievement of

💰 SDG 1 – End of Poverty. The increased family income and welfare created by project’s social- and economic resilience will alleviate the poverty level at local level. The project will develop sustainable community social business practices on processing ecosystem base products and services. The community social business will integrate processing, packaging, branding, certificating, and licensing, marketing, promoting products and developing e-commerce. Based on the business feasibility study, the products and services created by this project are very feasible and profitable.
🍽️ SDG 2 – Zero Hunger. Our blue carbon-, agroforestry carbon- and climate mitigation projects create the social-economic impacts on food security of fisheries and agricultural products.
SDG 5 – Gender Equality. Each Yagasu’s project has a component to empower women groups as leading roles of long-term resilience to the impacts of climate change. Their roles are significantly transforming power imbalances that lead to gender in social equality, not only in number people involved but also in spreading locations and scope of activities.
💧 SDG 6 – Clean Water. The blue carbon project has an impact to prevent salt intrusion, while agroforestry project has benefit for natural water purifiers, and soil- and water conservation along watershed ecosystem.
🌱 SDG 13 – Climate Action – Planting trees on blue carbon- and agroforestry carbon projects take urgent actions as powerful carbon sinks to combat climate change and its impacts.
🐠 SDG 14 – Life below water. The ecosystem resilience will secure sustainable productivity of coastal natural resources on high biological productivity and role in the nutrient budget of adjacent coastal ecosystem and support natural biodiversity enrichment and species stock enhancement.
🦜 SDG 15 – Life on Land. Our agroforestry carbon and species and habitat conservation give impacts on Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) in which in certain locations create biodiversity hotspots.