More than half a million people evacuated as Typhoon Bavi heads to China after battering Japan and Taiwan

Nature & Climate Perspective

**The escalating frequency of extreme weather events like Typhoon Bavi severely threatens the physical permanence of LULUCF and Blue Carbon assets, directly challenging the ICVCM CCPs on risk mitigation and reversal management. **

• Violent winds and flash flooding risk catastrophic physical damage to coastal Blue Carbon habitats and inland forest ecosystems across China, Japan, and Taiwan, causing immediate biodiversity loss.
• Severe flooding events trigger sudden carbon reversals in LULUCF projects, undermining the integrity of carbon sequestration claims and requiring larger buffer pool allocations under ICVCM rules.
• Repeated climate-induced shocks degrade soil stability and coastal barriers, weakening long-term ecological resilience and making historical baseline estimations increasingly unreliable.