"Getting MRV right is crucial to ensuring that these technologies have a positive climate impact. But it’s one of ocean CDR’s largest knowledge gaps.”

“We simply don’t know whether some of these proposed interventions will actually work on large scales, or what negative effects they could have on complex and interconnected ecosystems.”

Matthew discusses the research that he conducts and the successes and challenges that the research has identified.

"It's the long-term sea surface temperature trend that should alarm us," says climate scientist David Ho.

This discussion-based workshop will identify what is needed right now to advance MRV for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) across ecosystem and technology types.

“It doesn’t make sense to use CCS to prolong our use of fossil fuels, especially to produce electricity,” said David Ho, professor at University of Hawaii and senior researcher at Columbia University. “The argument in favor of enhanced oil recovery is often that if they weren’t using this captured CO2, they’d be using some other CO2, but I don’t think you can call anything where you’re getting more oil out of the ground to burn a climate solution.”