Delta Blue Carbon

Delta Blue Carbon is the world’s largest mangrove restoration project. Located in Pakistan’s Indus River Delta area, it spans 350,000 hectares and has a 60-year lifespan. By revitalising the degraded coastal habitat and ensuring its long-term sustainability, the project activities will also yield substantial climate change adaptation benefits for biodiversity in the Indus Eco-region.

Indus Delta Capital is a blue carbon developer working in partnership with the Government of Sindh, a province of Pakistan located on the country’s south-eastern coast.

Alongside the Delta Blue Carbon project, they are working to improve socio-economic conditions in local communities, by improving safe water supplies and ensuring access to healthcare and education. Indus Delta Capital’s goal is to help make development smarter, sustainable and climate resilient.

• 60-year project timeline focused on carbon storage, community well-being, and biodiversity conservation.
• Public-private partnership between Forest and Wildlife Department and Indus Delta Capital Ltd.
• Follows Verra’s ICROA-endorsed methodology and holds CCB Triple Gold certification for climate, community, and biodiversity conservation.
• The project maintains a 10% buffer pool of credits to mitigate risk. This is tracked on Verra's public registry for transparency.
• The acres involved in the project area includes 60 villages, and 49,000 individuals. The project is set up to include these communities in decision making, implementation, awareness programs, and a stewardship agreement to provide income while fostering protection of natural resources. This creates potential for additional areas of income, specifically across gender, and set up long-term sustainable economies.

Delta Blue Carbon is the world’s largest mangrove restoration project. Located in Pakistan’s Indus River Delta area, it spans 350,000 hectares and plan to remove approximately 142 million tCO2e over its 60-year lifespan. By revitalising the degraded coastal habitat and ensuring its long-term sustainability, the project activities will also yield substantial climate change adaptation benefits for biodiversity in the Indus Eco-region.