Building Informed and Involved Communities for Responsible Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal – A Workshop Series

Program Areas – Responsible Innovation, Education and Engagement

Workshop 2: Challenges and Solutions Landscapes – Building an mCDR Roadmap

The second of two Expert and Stakeholder Workshops on Building Informed and Involved Communities for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)

Date & Location:

  • February 3 & 4 virtual workshop via Zoom
  • Session 1: February 3 from 9 AM-12:00 PM or 2:00 PM-5 PM EST
  • Session 2: February 4 from 9 AM-12:00 PM or 2:00 PM-5 PM EST

Background:

This NSF-supported invitation-only workshop series brings together a diverse group of mCDR, ocean, and social science stakeholders, researchers, and practitioners to identify the challenges of building community capacity for mCDR through different stages of research, testing, and deployment, and developing a plan of action for the public, private, and philanthropic drivers.

With respect to mCDR research and development, this second workshop aims to:

  • Convene a representative group of experts, stakeholders, and decision-makers,
  • Assess the high-priority challenges and solution landscapes defined in workshop #1,
  • Identify technology development solution pathways for related community capacity needs and development challenges.
  • Develop a roadmap identifying community capacity gaps and needs, and outline solutions to build informed and involved communities, focusing on near-, medium-, and long-term solutions.

The workshop agenda and design have been developed based on (a) review of the existing literature on mCDR R&D, (b) interviews, meetings, workshops, and engagements with experts and stakeholders, (c) guidance from our seven-member advisory board, and (d) outcomes and outputs from workshop #1 in this series.

 

Guiding Questions:

  1. What High-Priority challenges have been previously identified in workshop 1?
  2. What existing resources, projects, and tacit learnings fit into the roadmap landscape, and what needs to be added to support development at technical and social levels?
  3. What is the landscape of responsibilities, actors/stakeholders, and resources – define this across the next 10+ years? 
  4. What are high-priority solution recommendations defined by different stakeholder groups?

Abbreviated Agenda:

Session 1: February 3 from 9 AM-12:00 PM or 2:00 PM-5 PM EST

  • Welcome and Introductions
  • Results presentation and discussion from Workshop #1
  • Facilitated group work – Solutions Roadmap Building Session 1
    • Group 1: Focusing on identifying solutions to address challenges in development for mCDR science, technology, data, and infrastructure
    • Group 2: Focusing on identifying solutions to address challenges in mCDR governance
  • Group share-outs and adjourn

Session 2: February 4 from 9 AM-12:00 PM or 2:00 PM-5 PM EST

  • Welcome and reintroductions
  • Guided open conversations – Reflections from Session 1
  • Facilitated group work – Solutions Roadmap Additions
  • Guided open conversations – Identifying high-priority recommendations and future work guidance

Preliminary Results:

Workshop by the numbers –

  • 24 workshop participants
  • Across 20 organizations from Academia, Startups, Industry, Policy, Governance/Law, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Engagement, Community Engagement, Social Sciences, etc.

Conversation and solutions roadmapping themes across workshop sessions 1 & 2 (below)

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