Forecasters expect France-sized storm system to bring prolonged and widespread rainfall in coming days
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Nearly 3 million people evacuated as Typhoon Bavi batters eastern China
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Nature & Climate Perspective
**Extreme weather events like Typhoon Bavi pose severe physical risks to coastal ecosystems, highlighting the fragility of LULUCF and Blue Carbon assets. **
- Prolonged flooding and high winds directly threaten coastal Blue Carbon sinks, risking immediate carbon reversal and habitat degradation.
- Severe soil erosion and agricultural runoff from the France-sized storm disrupt local biodiversity and threaten the ecological baseline of regional nature-based sequestration projects.
- The scale of the deluge challenges long-term ecological stability, increasing the vulnerability of terrestrial carbon pools (LULUCF) to subsequent extreme weather events.
Market & Policy Outlook
**This catastrophic event underscores the critical need for robust 'Permanence' safeguards under the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) to manage climate-induced reversal risks. **
- Such acute physical impacts expose vulnerabilities in carbon offset registries, testing the adequacy of buffer pools and the ICVCM's CCP guidelines on risk mitigation.
- Widespread regional disruption threatens corporate Scope 3 supply chain resilience, forcing companies aligning with SBTi targets to re-evaluate geographic concentration risks.
- Physical damage to local clean energy infrastructure could temporarily disrupt I-RECs generation and regional energy transition pathways, altering localized carbon pricing dynamics.
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