🌊 CDR Daily Digest — Mar 9
Vox makes the case for marine CDR. Equatic plans world's largest ocean CDR plant in Singapore.
Record deal week: Boeing 40K t via Carbonfuture, Tapestry × Climeworks 10yr, Canada $100M coalition, Germany's first €98M CDR budget.
Cornell: ERW could remove 1.1 Bt COâ‚‚/yr by 2100.
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Marine CDR is one of the most promising — and least understood — removal pathways. The ocean already absorbs over 25% of human CO₂, but scaling that responsibly means understanding the ecology first.
The bipartisan ReSCUE Ocean Act would coordinate federal research across agencies before large-scale deployment. Science first, scale second.
The ocean already absorbs more than 1/4 of human-caused COâ‚‚. But scaling marine carbon removal responsibly requires strong public research and oversight. The bipartisan ReSCUE Ocean Act would fund and coordinate that work across federal agencies. More: https://t.co/P5JssENuCf
MRV is the bottleneck everywhere — land or ocean. Kiel researchers tackling marine CDR field monitoring confirms what CDI has seen with enhanced weathering: the hardest part isn't removing CO₂, it's proving you did.
"Prove & Learn" before "Speed & Scale."
https://www.carbon-drawdown.de/blog/2026-2-24-cdr-must-shift-from-speed-amp-scale-to-prove-amp-learn
For years, the dominant narrative in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has been speed and scale . Gigatons by 2050. Massive deployment. Rapid expansion. That ambition still matters. But at this stage of industry development, another priority deserves equal attention: proving, learning, and reducing unc
Studying oxygen impacts of marine CDR before scaling — exactly how this should work. The OAE field is doing something rare: building the safety case *alongside* the science.
Webinar March 19 for anyone tracking ocean CDR risks.
(via @nano4ocean on Bluesky)
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