COASTAL BLUE CARBON IN CANADA: - STATE OF KNOWLEDGE

In brief, while the conservation and restoration of marine ecosystems NCS have the potential to meaningfully contribute to mitigating the biodiversity and climate serve as NCS, blue carbon ecosystems themselves are vulnerable to anthropogenic and climate crises (alongside rapid decarbonization of the economy; Seddon et al. [...] These include Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution, the United Nations Indigenous Peoples’ legal, governance, and knowledge systems have contributed to successful Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the final report of the Truth and environmental stewardship practices in Canada and around the world (Artelle et al. [...] Indigenous societies and knowledge systems honour and respect water:  L Respond proactively and affirmatively to the needs, requests and concerns of Indigenous partners and the Indigenous Peoples whose territories encompass blue carbon resources “Water as a living entity, as is articulated through oral traditions… (is) an expression of and ecosystems. [...] Indigenous Peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to proclamation would build on the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the Treaty of Niagara of 1764 and reaffirm the nation-to- nation relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. [...] Indigenous Peoples have the right to the conservation and protection However, in the knowledge systems of many Indigenous Peoples, waters are understood as of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and self-determining and self-governing entities who only require respect and noninterference resources.