Top global conservationists, scientists converge in Sri Lanka

Negombo hosts three-day International Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group meeting Globally renowned experts provide scientific basis for Blue Carbon Initiative Convene in blue carbon hotspot regions around the world Sessions include Blue Carbon in Sri Lanka to showcase emerging scientists’ research To converge with sixth IORA Blue Carbon Hub Think Tank and International Blue Carbon SWG also holding meeting in SL Joint-delegation to visit Anawilundawa Ramsar wetland Aim to chart plan balancing local community, ecosystem, socio-economic priorities

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THE Blue Carbon Initiative yesterday began its three-day International Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group meetings in Negombo.

The group regularly convenes in blue carbon hotspot regions, with recent meetings held in Cape Town (South Africa), Singapore, Mérida (Mexico), Edinburgh (Scotland), and Copenhagen (Denmark). Sri Lanka is hosting the 2025 meeting, co-organised by the Marine Committee of the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS).

As the climate crisis accelerates, the Blue Carbon Initiative (BCI) stands as a coordinated global program dedicated to conserving and restoring coastal ecosystems, mangroves, tidal marshes, and sea grass meadows, for their importance to climate mitigation, biodiversity and human well-being.

The BCI is coordinated by Conservation International, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (10C) of UNESCO and IUCN.