Together we can advance new solutions to stabilize the climate and restore the ocean
Enormous greenhouse gas pollution is disrupting the climate and driving dangerous ocean overheating and acidification—devastating marine life and diminishing the ocean’s ability to support humanity. Our four-part strategy directly addresses the causes and impacts of climate disruption:
Decarbonize the Global Economy for a Healthy Ocean
Engage the size and power of the ocean to draw down and safely store carbon pollution
Advance collaborative research to slow and avoid catastrophic loss of critical marine ecosystems while we rebalance global carbon cycles
Build a global community to innovate and develop ocean-climate solutions
The ocean has immense potential to provide society with low-carbon energy, food, and transportation. We recently completed an in-depth analysis to identify the highest-leverage opportunities to advance select ocean-based decarbonization pathways, choosing Low-Carbon Seaweed-Based Products & Marine Renewable Energy to Power mCDR and the Blue Economy as our new areas of focus.
Slowing the loss of Arctic sea ice could be a powerful tool to lessen global climate disruption, but society needs much more information about the effectiveness and impacts of potential approaches. Our new Request for Proposals will support responsible and cutting-edge research.
Our recently released Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) Ecosystem Database is designed to support collaboration and accelerate progress. This comprehensive resource connects stakeholders across sectors — from research and government to NGOs and the private sector — promoting transparency, knowledge-sharing, and responsible development of potential mCDR solutions.
A new white paper by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University proposes more climate-conscious thinking on how parties currently apply, and how they could more effectively apply, relevant international legal principles and guidelines to mCDR.
Ocean Visions is spearheading the development of a comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment Framework for marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The initiative will create a tool for systematic evaluation of the potential environmental impacts of mCDR projects.
Ocean Visions has released a comprehensive database that provides an in-depth repository of the diverse entities in the marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) sector
Ocean Visions is a nonprofit organization at the center of a robust network comprised of leading universities and oceanographic institutions, and a diverse set of practitioner partners. Ocean Visions works to engage and focus resources from across this network for concerted action, catalyzing collaboration for the co-design, development, testing, and evaluation of solutions to the interlocking ocean-climate crisis.
