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The legal structures of voluntary carbon markets facilitate community dispossession while maintaining formal compliance with climate governance standards through mechanisms of atmospheric severance, compliance necropolitics, and necro-legal subjectivity. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how voluntary carbon market law facilitates dispossession and marginalizes vulnerable populations while remaining formally compliant with climate governance standards.

September 2, 2026Social & Legal StudiesOpen Access

The necro-legal form of carbon markets: Atmospheric severance, FPIC, and carbon necropolitics

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RARawnak Miraj Ul AzamAmerican International University-Bangladesh

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Critical doctrinal analysis reveals mechanisms of legal dispossession across carbon market standards, highlighting how atmospheric value is detached from territorial rights.

Key Points

To examine how voluntary carbon market law facilitates dispossession and marginalizes vulnerable populations while remaining formally compliant with climate governance standards.
Critical doctrinal analysis of major voluntary and international carbon market frameworks, including the Verified Carbon Standard, Gold Standard, ICVCM framework, and Article 6.4 mechanism.
Identifies 'atmospheric severance,' a legal process that decouples carbon sequestration value from underlying territorial sovereignty and land rights.
Demonstrates that Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) mechanisms convert structurally constrained local participation into legally cognizable consent ('compliance necropolitics').
Defines 'necro-legal subjectivity,' in which communities lose legal visibility and protections once their land's carbon productivity is exhausted.

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Rawnak Miraj Ul Azam (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e2b1c562ede874ec6f1d https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639261483156

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September 2, 2026Social & Legal StudiesOpen Access

The necro-legal form of carbon markets: Atmospheric severance, FPIC, and carbon necropolitics

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RARawnak Miraj Ul AzamAmerican International University-Bangladesh

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Overview

Critical doctrinal analysis reveals mechanisms of legal dispossession across carbon market standards, highlighting how atmospheric value is detached from territorial rights.

Key Points

To examine how voluntary carbon market law facilitates dispossession and marginalizes vulnerable populations while remaining formally compliant with climate governance standards.
Critical doctrinal analysis of major voluntary and international carbon market frameworks, including the Verified Carbon Standard, Gold Standard, ICVCM framework, and Article 6.4 mechanism.
Identifies 'atmospheric severance,' a legal process that decouples carbon sequestration value from underlying territorial sovereignty and land rights.
Demonstrates that Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) mechanisms convert structurally constrained local participation into legally cognizable consent ('compliance necropolitics').
Defines 'necro-legal subjectivity,' in which communities lose legal visibility and protections once their land's carbon productivity is exhausted.

Cite This Study

Rawnak Miraj Ul Azam (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e2b1c562ede874ec6f1d https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639261483156

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