Road map: A Comprehensive Program to Prove or Disprove Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies by 2030
Ocean Visions’ new high level road map outlines a comprehensive program to advance the science, technology, and policy priorities needed to rigorously evaluate mCDR. This is their thesis about what needs to happen by 2030 in order to generate the base of information that justifies scaling and deploying mCDR pathways as climate solutions, or shutting down investment in pathways unable to demonstrate effective and safe CDR. In short, this road map centers around three interconnected pillars of needed investment and work:
- Doing the science and engineering at the appropriate scales to answer important outstanding questions about mCDR technologies.
- Development of enabling environments that allow for accelerated research and development.
- Improvement and optimization of mCDR technologies to increase their potential to achieve climate-relevant scale and impact.
The road map serves as a starting point to coordinate and integrate diverse global actors and actions, advance the necessary pieces, and create synergies among and coordination between various efforts. It is intended to be a living document which will be routinely updated.