MozBlue’s Zambezi Delta work links mangrove restoration, local jobs and long-term carbon finance. This Overview compares developer, investor and registry accounts, including their different targets and time horizons.
Zambezi River Delta, Zambézia and Sofala provinces, MozambiqueCoastal mangrove forestVerra VCS (VM0033) · registered 19 Jun 2026
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OperatorBlue Forest (UAE), carbon finance via Summit Removall JV
EcosystemCoastal mangrove forest
StandardVerra VCS (VM0033) · registered 19 Jun 2026
StatusRegistered
LocationZambezi River Delta, Zambézia and Sofala provinces, Mozambique
Beyond the filing
Project in the wider record
The developer, financier, investor and registry give different windows into MozBlue. Their planting reports and credit projections retain their own dates, periods and assurance states.
4 source perspectives
Publisher figures · reported activity and projections
Nearly 10mMangroves planted
Blue Forest report as of May 2025; developer reported
Registry project area155,000 haRegistry observationVerra Registry public project record · registry record VCS 3142Project 1 activity instance5,116 haFiled designMozBlue VCS Project Description · physical p. 4, 9, 19Modelled annual average44,159 tCO₂e/yrEx-ante modelMozBlue VCS Project Description · physical p. 19Expected benefit to date0 tCO₂eFiled progressMozBlue VCS Project Description · physical p. 168
Overview
Inside the project
Blue Forest reports almost 10 million mangroves planted by May 2025 across MozBlue. Removall describes the first phase’s funding, restoration ambition and projected local employment. These are developer and financier accounts, not independently verified VCS carbon outcomes.
Sumitomo describes a 40-year financing projection for the Mozambique investment. The Verra filing uses a different 60-year Project Description model. The figures and periods should remain attached to their own publishers rather than being blended.
The Verra public record lists VCS 3142 as Registered from 19 June 2026. Registration is not credit issuance. Project 1 targets 5,116 hectares in Quelimane and Namacurra; the grouped project and registry area use other boundaries.
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Restore and conserve Zambezi Delta mangrove (Phase 1 around 5,000 ha)
Generate VCS and CCB blue-carbon credits to finance the work
Secure formal land tenure and equitable benefits for around 300 communities
Build climate resilience and biodiversity with alternative livelihoods
Approach
The filed Project Description publishes MozBlue-specific survival, carbon-stock and anti-cutting monitoring protocols, including plot geometry, field cadence, GPS requirements and a central monitoring portal.
The PDD's 60-year removals and 21% non-permanence treatment are ex-ante model values, not monitored actuals or evidence of issuance. No post-planting survival, canopy, biomass or hectares-planted actual is present in the supplied filing set.
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