SXSW 2025
How Marine CO2 Removal Can Deliver on its Promise
Description:
The ocean is Earth’s largest net sink for carbon dioxide emissions, and with rapidly growing interest in marine carbon dioxide removal, we’re asking it to store even more. Oceanographers have channeled their research to figure out how we might safely coax the ocean to store more carbon dioxide, and prove that it happened. Join us to for a conversation about the latest efforts to deploy the best available oceanographic tools to evaluate how we can work with the ocean to help address the climate crisis.
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Takeaways
- We need carbon dioxide removal, on top of rapid emissions reductions, to stabilize global climate. But we don't yet know how to do it.
- The ocean stores 40x more carbon than the atmosphere. Increasing its storage by a barely-measurable amount could meaningfully reduce atmospheric CO2.
- A sweet spot may exist but requires research: make the ocean absorb more carbon, while perturbing it so gently that the changes are hard to detect.
Speakers
- Jaime Palter, Associate Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
- David Ho, Chief Science Officer, [C]Worthy
Organizer
Peter Hanlon, Director, GSO Public Engagement, University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography
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