C-SINK Research Seminar: Navigating the Sea of Uncertainty Around Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)
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C-SINK Research Seminar Series
Date: October 2nd, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM CEST
Location: Online (Zoom)
Title: Navigating the Sea of Uncertainty Around Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)
Description:
Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) is emerging as a potential component of the portfolio of solutions needed to address climate change. Interest in these approaches is growing due to their potential to remove significant amounts of CO₂ from the atmosphere, while also offering co-benefits such as mitigating ocean acidification and supporting marine ecosystem health.
This seminar will explore why mCDR is attracting attention, the different proposed
approaches (from ocean alkalinity enhancement to biomass sinking) and the key knowledge gaps that remain around their effectiveness, durability, scalability, and potential environmental and social impacts.
In this seminar, Dr. Christopher Pierce will also introduce the SEAO2-CDR project,
highlighting recent outputs, ongoing activities, and plans for the next year and a half. The session will emphasize a holistic perspective, combining scientific, technical, social, and policy considerations to better understand the opportunities, risks, and practical challenges of implementing ocean-based CDR approaches.
Speaker:
- Dr Christopher Pearce, Senior Marine Geoscientist at the National Oceanography
Centre (NOC)
Moderator:
- Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, Senior Lecturer in Climate Law at the University of
Edinburgh
Register here to attend and find out more about ocean-based CDR!
https://us06web.zoom.us/meetin...
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor CINEA can be held responsible for them. This project has received funding from the European Commission Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) grants under grant agreement No 101080377.
