The ClimateWorks Foundation and Ocean Vision is
seeking applications for Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal Analogues to
support research grants to help close key knowledge gaps to advance ocean-based
carbon dioxide removal (CDR), and to catalyze public and philanthropic interest
in this field of research.
Ocean Visions has a multi-pronged program to support accelerated
research and development of ocean-based CDR. Together, ClimateWorks Foundation
and Ocean Visions seek to award up to two,18-month grants to evaluate the
effectiveness and environmental impacts of ocean-based CDR approaches via the
study of field-based analogues. Ocean-based CDR analogues are defined as marine
settings that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere via processes
that could theoretically be replicated, accelerated, and scaled.
Scope of Work
Projects should identify a field-based ocean CDR
analogue and:
- Quantify atmospheric CO2 flux
into the ocean, and
- Evaluate environmental
co-benefits and environmental risks of the process that removes CO2 from
surface waters.
Funding Information
The grant size of a project proposal should not
exceed $220,000. However, if there is a compelling reason for this RFP to
support one large project (up to $440,000), applicants are invited to make that
case in their proposal form.
Topics
Peer-reviewed scientific publications will
ultimately be expected, but by the end of the grant duration (18 months)
grantees should be prepared to produce a project summary that addresses the
following topics:
- How the analogue improves their
understanding of carbon sequestration, permanence, environmental
co-benefits, and environmental risks in that environment.
- Critical physical, biological,
and chemical properties of interest that affect the CDR capacity,
environmental co-benefits, and environmental risks of the analogue.
- Lesson learned from this
analogue that could inform the design of controlled, experimental field
trials, including measurement tools and data infrastructure needs.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants can be from any country. Applicants
must submit a pre-proposal, which will be evaluated by ClimateWorks Foundation
and Ocean Visions staff. A subset of applicants will be selected and invited to
submit a full proposal. Full proposals will be peer-reviewed by an Advisory
Committee selected by Ocean Visions.
Post
Date - 28-Jul-2021