Rick Berg

🌊 Launched in 2024, Ocean Visions' refreshed mCDR Field Trial Database tracks global experiments, MRV strategies, carbon flux data & more. Explore trends, insights & an interactive map to see where momentum is building.

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Article 6 Decision Making: Training for Practitioners Online e-learning course for practitioners to gain knowledge on international carbon market landscape and Article 6 activity development

🌱 Free course alert—in collaboration with @perspectivescc.bsky.social (Perspectives Climate Research). Learn how to navigate Article 6 of the Paris Agreement with this new online training for carbon market professionals.

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🌊#SabinCenter & New York Sea Grant are holding a symposium with experts in the #law and #policy landscape of #mCDR. This is an opportunity to access leading expertise in mCDR governance & technology. 🔗 Learn more & register here: climate.law.columbia.edu/content/mari...

Applications Now Open for Two Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Model Intercomparison Project (OAEMIP) Research Fellows - Carbon to Sea Initiative The Carbon to Sea Initiative is now accepting applications for two Research Fellowship positions to support the new Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Model Intercomparison Project (OAEMIP), which aims to f...

We're looking to hire two Research Fellows with experience in ocean modelling for the Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Model inter-comparison project! #OAE

www.carbontosea.org/2025/03/24/a...

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Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific Communications Earth & Environment - Olivine-based ocean alkalinity enhancement can disrupt phytoplankton communities, whereas sodium hydroxide has a negligible impact on plankton, according to...

🎉New publication alert! 🌊
We tested how different ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) substances—NaOH, olivine, and steel slag—affect plankton in the Equatorial Pacific🌞.
🫙Repeatitive onboard incubations, open ocean data.
Check it out 👉: rdcu.be/egM0x
#OAE #ClimateChange #CDR

Excellent resource for navigating the mCDR development ecosystem

Frontiers | Seawater carbonate chemistry based carbon dioxide removal: towards commonly agreed principles for carbon monitoring, reporting, and verification

📢PAPER ALERT! Seawater carbonate chemistry based carbon dioxide removal: towards commonly agreed principles for carbon monitoring, reporting, and verification.🌊
Expert from @biogeosensing.bsky.social contributed towards to this international effort.
For more info: www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...

I refined the regex a bit so it’s on there now. Unfortunately #cdr brings up a lot of unrelated posts, so unless there are other obviously climate-related words in the post, better to use #carbonremoval or #carbondioxideremoval, as you tested. Thanks for helping improve the feed!

Kenya has similar possibilities, check out Octavia Carbon there.

Is there a US-based commercial or academic lab I can send biochar samples to for random reflectance (inertinite) measurements?

All I have found so far is Fusinite, a commercial lab located in the UK.

Regulating Ocean Regulating Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement in Washington State Enhancement in Washington State - Climate Law Blog Our planet is undergoing significant changes due to climate disruption, with especially severe impacts on the ocean. Most climate action today rightly focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.…

🌊 📉 The Sabin Center published a new report that takes a deep dive into legal questions on ocean alkalinity enhancement in Washington State.
Blog ➡️ https://buff.ly/42Cja5X
Full paper ➡️ https://buff.ly/3Cjwguo
#FridayReads #ocean #climateaction

WA is a hotbed for carbon capture research. What is it anyway? The concept of carbon capture, removal and storage is fairly simple, but in practice it's much more complicated and controversial.

🔖📈👇 Excellent @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social Climate Lab piece by @conradswanson.bsky.social on CDR (and CCS) featuring Banyu Carbon + Giana Amador / @weremovecarbon.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Now is the time to provide evidence to inform IPCC carbon removal reporting standards – CarbonPlan Upcoming CDR methodologies from the IPCC will provide a blueprint for national reporting of CDR. Now is the time to share evidence.

For some context from @carbonplan.org: carbonplan.org/blog/ipcc-cd...

Finally released: the meeting report from IPCC Task Force on GHG Inventories (TFI) Scoping Meeting for a Methodology Report on CDR/CCUS. I expect the eventual methodology report coming out of this will have a major impact on the trajectory of carbon removal. www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/mtdoc...

Weds #AGU24 reminder: get to Salon B early to get seats at the CDR / #mCDR sessions. We've hit SRO multiple times... Catch @sarcusa.bsky.social right at 0830! Catch PNNL's GC32B today at 10:20, a session all about mineralization! Find Tristen at the poster session! 👏 👏 👏

For a fairly narrow slice of that, check out the Carbon Dioxide Removal feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Also, if you ‘like’ the feed, other people will find it more easily

You can find all mentions of biochar on Bluesky on the carbon dioxide removal feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Also, for folks in #carbonremoval (AKA #CDR) to remove excess greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, check out the official Bluesky Carbon Removal Feed here:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Absolutely! The feed is keyword-driven, it’s fairly comprehensive but warrants occasional review. Let me know if you ever notice any holes! And excellent article btw, thanks for sharing

A Guide for Newcomers to the CDR Industry Yes, there is an acronym in the title. My first piece of advice for navigating the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) industry — prepare yourself to encounter many, many acronyms. Learn to love them. This g...

Learning the 'lay of the land' of the carbon dioxide removal industry can be very time-consuming for newcomers. To speed up this process and make it a bit easier, I've created a concise resource guide designed for those looking to enter the field.

open.substack.com/pub/rickberg...

Agreed, the vast majority are high-integrity - but as long as the market remains voluntary, a higher level of transparency (and accessibility) is needed from developers and registries

Exploring Durability Curves — An Enhanced Lens for Evaluating Carbon Removals Crediting methodologies must incorporate additional mechanisms beyond monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) alone to manage durability, creating...

This was a satisfying one to write. A new article digging into durability of CDR - and how a slightly more advanced view of durability could help carbon markets to function a bit better - ultimately to help mitigate climate change. nori.com/blog/carbon-...

What if you could check ocean CO₂ removal (CDR) efficiency anywhere in the ocean by clicking on a map?

We took the first step in this paper, mapping the efficiency of ocean alkalinity enhancement at different seasons in different parts of the global ocean.

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...

Absolutely, it’s one of the fundamentals of long-term climate. It would be an interesting exercise to estimate the balance for Greenland melting. Maybe a good thesis for a geochemist grad student.

Interesting to think about. It is a bit of a microcosm of Walker’s “weathering thermostat”

Sci-fi book idea: The year is 2100. Global Warming has been reversed dramatically, far too much - atmospheric CO2 is down to 112 ppm and falling... The CDR Industrial Complex is unstoppably powerful will not be stopped.

Great to see. Although biggest questions about these methods are how are they ensuring the wood is coming from sustainably managed forests, and what very long-term monitoring is in place to ensure the blocks don’t get wet and degrade.