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Vanga Blue Forest — Community Mangrove Protection (Kwale, Kenya)

Community-led mangrove protection with Plan Vivo alignment — investor brief.

Executive summary

Vanga Blue Forest protects ~460 ha of mangroves and supports ~974 households. Karbon-Assure.tech applies a tier-based verification and insurance bundling model to accelerate registry readiness and reduce buyer risk.

Area
~460 ha
Estimated issuance
2,000–3,000 tCO₂e / yr
Price band
US$7–12 / tCO₂e

Monitoring & dMRV

Karbon-Assure integrates community plots, periodic soil cores and satellite change detection (Sentinel/Landsat/Planet) to produce hashed MRV snapshots for auditability. These feeds form the basis of tier scoring and pre-submission validation.

Tier-Based Assurance (Conceptual)

The algorithm scores projects across baseline robustness, permanence exposure, monitoring continuity, methodology confidence and leakage risk. Projects are assigned tiers—higher tiers receive preferential insurance loadings and streamlined registry packaging.

References

  1. Plan Vivo — Vanga / related project page
  2. Mangrove Action Project — Kenya case
  3. Kairo et al., Mangrove carbon stocks (Lamu)
Disclaimer: figures are conceptual and referenced to public sources. For project-level proof request access to the Proof Room.