# 3.1 Ownership

Projects must demonstrate that they have legal ownership over the rights to all carbon credits that will be claimed from the project. They will have to prove this to NCS.

When there are multiple parties involved in the project, for example a project developer and a forest owner, a single beneficiary must be specified as the sole owner of the carbon credits.

The matter of ownership must be defined in contracts between the project proponent and other project participants.


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