Consent Before Credits: FPIC and Community Rights in Blue Carbon Projects
What free, prior and informed consent means in practice for blue carbon projects — who must be asked, what must be shared, and how consent is kept alive.
Priya Raman ·
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What free, prior and informed consent means in practice for blue carbon projects — who must be asked, what must be shared, and how consent is kept alive.
Priya Raman ·
No single body governs ocean carbon removal. From the London Protocol to national permits, here is the patchwork of rules taking shape — and the gaps.
Priya Raman ·

The ocean is not empty and neither are its rights. Tenure, jurisdiction and Indigenous sea country decide who can claim coastal carbon — before any science does.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Ocean biomass sinking proposes growing seaweed at the surface and sending it to the deep sea. An honest explainer of the physics, methods and the questions still open.
Priya Raman ·
How blue carbon projects can share revenue, jobs and decision power fairly with coastal communities — models, safeguards and the questions to ask first.
Priya Raman ·
How ocean CDR field trials actually get permitted: research exemptions, environmental review, discharge rules, marine consent and community engagement.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·