Event overview

The great potential for marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) to help mitigate, and ultimately
reverse, dangerous climate change and meet Paris Agreement targets is increasingly
recognized. Yet action lags well behind the urgent needs to answer remaining scientific
questions about mCDR pathways, to build awareness among global decision makers, and to
integrate carbon dioxide removal into existing and future climate mitigation commitments in an
ecologically and socially responsible manner.

In an effort to accelerate and coordinate progress on answering these critical questions, Ocean
Visions published in 2023 A Comprehensive Program to Prove or Disprove Marine Carbon
Dioxide Removal Technologies by 2030. This session will explore where we are in the race to
prove or disprove the myriad of potential mCDR approaches being advanced.

In the past year, there has been a great deal of change and advance in the field. This session
will highlight some of those changes, and specifically look at advances by the US federal
government; views from other national governments that are exploring the field; changes and
lessons from the mCDR investment arena; and a look at some of the major international policy
and governance hurdles that we face. A one-hour panel will be followed by 30 minutes of Q/A
and comments. Following a fifteen-minute break, a number of mCDR start-up companies will
make 3-minute presentations about their work and the key challenges they face.

Panelists:

• Moderator: Brad Ack, CEO, Ocean Visions
• Danielle Farelli, Assistant Director for Ocean Science and Technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Arun Vignesh, Assistant Director for Global Partnerships, Office of the Prime Minister,
  Singapore
• James Lindsay, Director, Investments, Builders Initiative
• Romany Webb, Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia
  University.

Start-Ups:

• Planetary Technologies
• CarbonBlue
• Brilliant Planet
• Equatic