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Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)

Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) (also known as Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal oCDR) activities are designed to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere using the marine environment and its chemical and biological processes.

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  Ocean ICU: Improving Carbon Understanding

  The Horizon EU OceanICU is a five year project that seeks to gain a new understanding of the biological carbon pump and its processes in order to provide fundamental knowledge and tools to help policy makers, regulators and Ocean industry–fishing and mining, along with the wider blue econo...
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  AgZero+ Towards sustainable, climate-neutral farming

  Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is a partner in a major five-year £13.8 million research programme, named “AgZero+’, to support the UK’s transition towards home-grown food production that is sustainable, carbon-neutral and has a positive effect on nature.

07 May 2026

PML backs call for safeguards on emerging ocean carbon removal technologies 

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) has joined international organisations in backing a new joint statement calling for robust governance, transparency, and public participation and trust in the development of engineered marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) approaches. 

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  “Major blind spot” in ocean carbon research could undermine global climate predictions 

  A new international report coordinated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO highlights a critical gap in understanding how the ocean absorbs and stores carbon – a “blind spot” that could significantly undermine global climate predi...

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  PML scientists to showcase cutting-edge research at Ocean Sciences Meeting 

  From marine carbon dioxide removal to AI-powered biodiversity monitoring, PML scientists will present the latest research addressing some of the most urgent environmental challenges of our time – and explore how the ocean both responds to climate change – an...

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  Future EU Rules on Marine-Based Carbon Removal (mCDR) in discussion in Brussels

  PML experts are attending an EU gathering to discuss the role of Direct Ocean Carbon Capture and Storage (DOCCS).

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  New evidence reveals how Greenland’s seaweed locks away carbon in the deep ocean

  An interdisciplinary study confirms, for the first time, the oceanographic pathways that transport floating macroalgae from the coastal waters of Southwest Greenland to deep-sea carbon reservoirs, potentiall...