Preface Mangroves support global goals for sustainable development, nature and climate. In addition to being carbon sequestration powerhouses, mangroves provide strong adaptation and resilience to coastal communities, they offer a home to species that support local food security as well as endangered species, and they provide livelihoods for millions of people in coastal regions. Investment into these ecosystems has traditionally relied heavily on public and philanthropic investment. Yet with mangroves in decline globally, these funds alone cannot support the level of conservation and restoration needed to meet global goals. Corporate investment will be the game- changer in realizing mangrove conservation and restoration at scale – and it has already started. In March 2023, the World Economic Forum launched the Blue Carbon Action Partnership (BCAP) to drive investment into mangroves, seagrasses and tidal marshes by linking national planning with high-quality investment. In collaboration with the Forum’s trillion trees initiative, 1t.org, BCAP has convened the Mangroves Working Group to raise ambition and deliver action towards the conservation and restoration of mangrove forests, by engaging corporate and expert partners in ecologically and socially responsible mangrove investment. Corporations have a ready opportunity to drive investment by creating a race to the top for high- quality projects. They can support the broader uplift of project pipelines by leveraging their unique capabilities and strengths, through investment that creates strategic value for their operations while achieving corporate sustainability goals. This Playbook is a guide for corporations that have their climate and nature strategies in place, and are seeking detailed opportunities to take action with the utmost integrity, highest value and lowest risk. We are facing a time of unparalleled global crises in soaring emissions, plunging biodiversity and derailed sustainable development, demanding interconnected action that delivers simultaneous solutions for people, nature and climate. Mangroves are the prime nature-based answer to provide this convergence of solutions. Corporations that leverage their capabilities and leadership to invest in mangrove-positive action will generate gains in their own value chains, while accelerating progress along blue carbon pathways towards a better future for us all.Alfredo Giron Head of Oceans, World Economic Forum Investing in Mangroves: The Corporate PlaybookApril 2025 Investing in Mangroves: The Corporate Playbook 3

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