The ocean and climate are inextricably interconnected; the state of one drives the state of the other. Making up 71% of the planet’s surface, the ocean influences weather, and climate patterns; after 10,000 years of relative stability in this ocean-climate dynamic, the effects of the last 170 years of accumulated greenhouse gas emissions now threaten the stability of the entire system.


The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made clear that large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), of between 100 and 1000 gigatons, will be needed this century to have a chance to hold temperatures to a 1.5°C increase—the goal set out in the Paris Agreement.


We are developing technologies for harnessing the power of the ocean to sequester and safely store carbon dioxide. The ocean already holds more carbon than any other part of Earth’s biosphere (shown below) and has the potential to contribute even more. The sheer scale of the ocean also provides us the opportunity for our solutions, if proven to be viable and safe have the potential to go to the scale needed.