Ika Makimaki

Colour me sceptical.

mCDR (Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal) is an umbrella term which encompasses things from looking after mangroves and seagrasses (good stuff) to borderline geoengineering and dumping a variety of materials into the ocean (questionable and even probably bad stuff).

So far it has been mostly proven to be an efficient mechanism for dodgy start-ups to sell carbon credits and do greenwashing.

Beware the Snake Oil salespeople.

Start-up asked for regulation changes to allow controversial marine carbon storage
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591180/start-up-asked-for-regulation-changes-to-allow-controversial-marine-carbon-storage

#protectTheOcean

Start-up asked for regulation changes to allow controversial marine carbon storage

Gigablue applied for permission to put a thousand tonnes of its particles in New Zealand waters - but was told its plans amounted to marine dumping.

RNZ
Mar 31 at 9:50pmWeb
Show threadIka MakimakiMar 31

Alternate (but still quite accurate) summary from a contact elsewhere:

"James Shaw lobbying for Israeli geoengineering startup to remove regulation so they can scale up unproven technology in the ocean without peer review in order to sell carbon credits to the corporate greenwashing market."

Make of that what you will. 🤷

Show threadBob LeFridge  Mar 31

That's accurate. Whatever has James got himself into?

@pezmico

Show threadPhil Stevens Mar 31

@pezmico I'm beyond disappointed, because I tried for years to engage Shaw on the topic of biochar, which is a proven CDR methodology with hundreds of millions of years' worth of track record.

All I ever got was fobbed off by PAs and gatekeepers, even when I had a personal introduction.

Show threadRaglan Niall  Apr 1
@pezmico that sounds horrific.
Show threadRobyn Nuthall6d ago
@Niall @pezmico my goodness!! What's he thinking.