Blue carbon ecosystems—mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes—are powerful climate solutions. This article explores why action is urgent and what truly makes projects succeed, from science and finance to community leadership and trust.
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The path to meaningful climate action is fraught with challenges—structural, political, and social. For women in climate leadership, the obstacles are even more pronounced, compounded by gender biases that persist in both organizational and community settings.
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Between June and September 2025, ITACA engaged in seven major climate and ocean forums across Europe, spanning disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, ocean governance, and finance. While each space tackled urgent challenges, a shared gap became clear: interconnected problems are still addressed in silos. Drawing on insights from these dialogues, this reflection explores why centering communities, aligning finance with action, and bridging fragmented agendas is essential to building effective and lasting climate resilience.
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In Panama’s Gulf of Montijo, mangrove loss has long mirrored a deeper issue: communities losing influence over the decisions shaping their coastline. Through a joint effort led by MiAMBIENTE with support from EUROCLIMA+ and Expertise France, ITACA helped shift this trajectory by pairing science with community-driven planning. Working alongside IH Cantabria and the women-led NGO ICEPED, the process moved beyond consultation toward shared leadership — from eight locally hosted workshops to the co-design of restoration and livelihood plans that link ecology with real economic opportunities. Montijo shows that when restoration is built with and led by local actors, it can revive more than ecosystems — it can restore agency itself.
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The path to meaningful climate action is fraught with challenges—structural, political, and social. For women in climate leadership, the obstacles are even more pronounced, compounded by gender biases that persist in both organizational and community settings.
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The path to meaningful climate action is fraught with challenges—structural, political, and social. For women in climate leadership, the obstacles are even more pronounced, compounded by gender biases that persist in both organizational and community settings.
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The path to meaningful climate action is fraught with challenges—structural, political, and social. For women in climate leadership, the obstacles are even more pronounced, compounded by gender biases that persist in both organizational and community settings.
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The Caribbean Sea is a large interconnected marine ecosystem. Covering an area of 3.200.000 km2, of which only 3.9% is protected, it contains 7.1% of the world’s coral reefs including the second largest barrier reefs, and it is a huge biodiversity hotspot. The Caribbean Sea is also home to many Small Island Developing States (SIDS), most of which are highly dependent on fisheries resources both as a source of livelihood and food security.
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