Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: Issue Brief
The Carbon Business Council published an issue brief about Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR). Given its enormous scale, the ocean has an outsized potential role to play in advancing carbon removal to the level required to meet Paris Agreement targets. mCDR has the potential, when responsibly deployed and scaled, to offer significant climate benefits, while also contributing to sustainable economic development for coastal communities, maritime nations, and small island developing states. Additionally, certain mCDR approaches may yield co-benefits such as improvements to ocean health, via local mitigation of ocean acidification, to coastal ecosystems and commercial aquaculture.
In this Issue Brief, a working group of Carbon Business Council mCDR member companies and partners highlight the mCDR opportunity; identify pathways to enable research, development, and deployment; and offer a set of focused recommendations for policymakers and other CDR ecosystem stakeholders to responsibly accelerate the advancement of mCDR.
Thank you to our members for their input and time in making this brief happen, along with a variety of stakeholders who provided invaluable feedback. Toby Bryce served as lead author. Ben Rubin and Isabella Corpora of the Carbon Business Council are co-authors. Working group members include: Ashritha Karuturi, Carbon Business Council; Brad Rochlin, Running Tide; Douglas Edwards, Vesta; Edward Sanders, Equatic; Frances Simpson-Allen, Ebb Carbon; Garrett Boudinot, Vycarb; Jeanine Ash, Capture6; Julian Sachs, Banyu Carbon; Kelly Erhart, Vesta; Leo Park, Capture6; Pete Chargin, Planetary; Tara Bojdak, Captura; Zach Cockrum, Vesta. Internal reviewers include: Ben Swainbank, OceanidMRV; Nico Julian, Phykos; Paddy Estridge, Seaweed Generation.
Observers include: Christopher Mann, Carbon to Sea; Diane Hoskins, Carbon to Sea; Jill Storey, World Ocean Council; Matthew Long, [C]Worthy; Paul Holthus, World Ocean Council; Romany Webb, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University; Wil Burns, Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University. External reviewers include: Sifang Chen, Carbon180; Savita Bowman and Jasmine Yu, ClearPath; Cara Maesano, RMI; Katie Lebling, WRI.
The issue brief on mCDR is our latest in a series, available on our publications page. You can follow the Carbon Business Council on X and LinkedIn for updates on our work and subscribe to our newsletter for all the latest. Questions or comments? Let us know at info@carbonbusinesscouncil.org.
