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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 · September 26, 2026

Blue Carbon10 min read

Blue Carbon on Sea Country: Benefit Sharing and Free, Prior, Informed Consent

Blue carbon projects live on Indigenous sea country. What free, prior and informed consent and fair benefit sharing demand of developers and buyers.

Priya Raman · September 26, 2026

Golden-hour light over a bull kelp forest fringe along a rugged coast, with a small ranger boat anchored among the kelp beds and seabirds skimming the swell.

Blue Carbon7 min read

Who Owns Blue Carbon? Tenure, Rights and the Sea

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 · September 26, 2026

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