The Tidewright Journal
Encyclopedia entries, coastal atlas guides, science explainers, farming know-how and recipes — written by Tidewright’s scientists, engineers, chefs and field crews, and open to everyone.
Beyond the headlines on carbon trading: what Article 6's rulebook actually requires, which activities qualify, and where blue carbon credits fit in.
Priya Raman ·
Blue carbon prices confuse buyers because costs vary wildly by method. A clear-eyed breakdown of restoration, MRV, issuance and buffer costs per tonne.
Priya Raman ·
A practical due-diligence checklist for blue carbon credit buyers: what to check on methodology, tenure, MRV, permanence and community rights.
Priya Raman ·
Good kelp carbon claims start with good field design. A practical guide to plots, transects, replicates, stratification and the statistics of underwater surveys.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Your company bought blue carbon credits. Now: where do they go in the ESG report, what can you claim, and how do you avoid a greenwashing finding?
Priya Raman ·
Insurance is quietly becoming blue carbon's backstop. How parametric policies, credit-replacement cover and risk pooling protect coastal carbon claims.
Priya Raman ·
How mangroves, seagrasses, salt marshes — and eventually kelp — enter countries' NDCs, climate targets and national inventories, and why it matters.
Priya Raman ·
The accounting machinery behind coastal-wetland carbon in national climate pledges: inventories, the Wetlands Supplement, and where kelp still falls outside.
Priya Raman ·
How offtake agreements and ERPAs fund blue carbon projects years before credits exist — structures, pricing, prepayment, delivery risk and buyer safeguards.
Priya Raman ·
Which countries actually count, credit and trade blue carbon? A comparative tour of national frameworks, from Australia to Japan, Kenya and beyond.
Priya Raman ·
There is no ticker for blue carbon. Here's how prices actually form — spot deals, forward contracts, auctions, broker spreads and the quality premiums buyers pay.
Priya Raman ·
Blue carbon credits range from a few dollars to far more. What actually sets the price: costs, quality, co-benefits, forwards and policy demand.
Priya Raman ·
Blue carbon projects rarely run on carbon credits alone. A practical guide to grants, offtakes, equity, debt and blended finance for coastal restoration.
Priya Raman ·
Feasibility, baselining, validation, monitoring, issuance: a stage-by-stage map of how long blue carbon projects really take, and where they stall.
Priya Raman ·
Blue carbon is stored in living ecosystems that can burn, sicken or wash away. How reversal risk works, what triggers it, and how honest projects insure it.
Priya Raman ·
A practical audit protocol for checking tenure, consent and benefit-sharing on the ground — the documents to request, the interviews to run and the red flags.
Priya Raman ·
Environmental and social safeguards keep blue carbon projects from harming communities or habitats. Here's what they are and how to verify them.
Priya Raman ·
A plain-language map of the standards, methodologies and registries behind blue carbon credits — and the questions every buyer should ask before signing.
Priya Raman ·
A kelp restoration project's first carbon verification, told from the inside — what auditors tested, what they found, and what makes kelp credits unusual.
Priya Raman ·
Blue carbon and green carbon are both nature's climate workhorses — but they store carbon in different places, on different timescales, with different risks.
Priya Raman ·
The blue economy spans shipping, aquaculture, offshore energy, blue carbon and restoration. Here is where the ocean jobs actually are and how to enter each.
Tom Okafor ·
How sustainable-finance taxonomies decide which ocean activities count as green or blue — and where kelp restoration, seaweed farming and blue carbon fit.
Priya Raman ·
The blue-rayed limpet lives its whole life on kelp, its shell shot through with living blue light — a profile of Europe's smallest, most beautiful kelp grazer.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The unwritten rules of boat diving kelp forests: anchoring and moorings, canopy navigation, entries and exits, flags, restoration sites and shared-water manners.
Tom Okafor ·