Engineering Our Ocean: Diving Into Ocean Carbon Removal

As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify, many are now capitalizing on the need to remove emissions from the atmosphere to prevent further damages. Multinational corporations, several governments, and scientific bodies have increasingly pointed to the ocean as host to such a solution, an effort recognized as marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR).

MCDR encompasses several scientifically distinct approaches that use the ocean to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, such as ocean alkalinity enhancement and direct ocean capture. Despite an absence of clear international legal frameworks, mCDR is largely backed both by countries willing to host pilot projects in their waters and investors seeking a return on the next big climate solution.

In Engineering our Ocean: Diving Into Ocean Carbon Removal, journalists Alexandra Talty and Allison Gacad explore the financial architecture backing the mCDR ecosystem alongside the science and governance of such efforts.

The reported stories will take a deep dive into the operations of several projects worldwide, from ocean alkalinity enhancement in Canada to direct ocean capture in Singapore, unpacking how a nascent industry navigates the mechanics of mCDR amid the backdrop of a challenging macroeconomy and political appetite for the sector at large.