Research

Mangroves offer a host of benefits such as protecting lives, supporting livelihoods and contributing to climate mitigation goals. Under climate change and future land-use changes, conservation strategies may need to be adapted to evolving pressures. My research focuses on quantifying benefits of mangroves, as well as assessing conservation strategies for mangrove ecosystems in the current and changing climate.

This project aims to assess the environmental and social integrity of natural climate solutions through an inter-disciplinary approach. Key topics include factors influencing carbon credit certification, monitoring of biodiversity outcomes as well as the effectiveness of benefit-sharing mechanisms for local communities.

HFLD jurisdictions are vital as they contain some of the world’s last intact forests. However, these areas may experience increasing deforestation rates, which traditional carbon financing mechanisms based on historical baselines may not address adequately. In this project, we explore ways to improve HFLD crediting mechanisms to provide sufficient incentives for their protection while ensuring project integrity.

This project’s main aim is to understand the integration of blue carbon in Singapore’s national climate change mitigation targets. This project combines an interdisciplinary approach to mapping blue carbon at site and national scale, understanding changes in blue carbon and future projections. Public and private stakeholders are also engaged to create a roadmap of blue carbon as a climate change policy option for Singapore. This project is based in the Department of Geography.

This project underscores the significance of tidal flats through a three-pronged approach. First, it assigns a monetary value to their ecosystem services; second, it quantifies their carbon storage potential and assesses their status as blue carbon ecosystems; and third, it evaluates how their cultural services contribute to human well-being.

Carbon Integrity SG is a research programme funded by the Singaporean government with a mission is to develop and strengthen capabilities in the accounting, monitoring, and quality assurance of nature-based carbon projects across Southeast Asia.

This is a regional blue carbon project that aims to quantify robust and defensible blue carbon budgets of mangroves and seagrasses across Southeast Asia by 1) laboratory experiments & in-situ carbon stocks and flux measurements, 2) by using advanced technology to improve the reporting, monitoring and verification protocols and 3) capacity building in blue carbon science.