Rick Berg
@rickberg.bsky.social
Geochemist | Head of MRV @ Banyu Carbon | Pacific Northwest | Spirit
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Rick Berg
@rickberg.bsky.social
· Jul 3
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...
open.substack.com
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...
open.substack.com/pub/rickberg...
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🌊 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.
🔗 oceanvisions.org/mcdr-field-t...
🔗 oceanvisions.org/mcdr-field-t...
August 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🌊 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.
🔗 oceanvisions.org/mcdr-field-t...
🔗 oceanvisions.org/mcdr-field-t...
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🌱 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.
Start here 👉 a6partnership.org/article-6-de...
#ClimateAction #Article6
Start here 👉 a6partnership.org/article-6-de...
#ClimateAction #Article6
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
a6partnership.org
August 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🌱 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.
Start here 👉 a6partnership.org/article-6-de...
#ClimateAction #Article6
Start here 👉 a6partnership.org/article-6-de...
#ClimateAction #Article6
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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...
July 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🌊#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...
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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...
www.carbontosea.org/2025/03/24/a...
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...
www.carbontosea.org
April 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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...
www.carbontosea.org/2025/03/24/a...
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🎉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
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
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...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🎉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
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
The ocean’s ability to store carbon makes it a huge potential ally against climate change—the top threat to ocean health. To support collaboration in the growing field of marine #carbonremoval, we’ve developed this comprehensive database of stakeholders: oceanvisions.org/mcdr-database/
April 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Excellent resource for navigating the mCDR development ecosystem
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📢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...
Expert from @biogeosensing.bsky.social contributed towards to this international effort.
For more info: www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
Frontiers | Seawater carbonate chemistry based carbon dioxide removal: towards commonly agreed principles for carbon monitoring, reporting, and verification
www.frontiersin.org
March 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
📢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...
Expert from @biogeosensing.bsky.social contributed towards to this international effort.
For more info: www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
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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.
All I have found so far is Fusinite, a commercial lab located in the UK.
February 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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.
All I have found so far is Fusinite, a commercial lab located in the UK.
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🌊 📉 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
Blog ➡️ https://buff.ly/42Cja5X
Full paper ➡️ https://buff.ly/3Cjwguo
#FridayReads #ocean #climateaction
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.…
buff.ly
January 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🌊 📉 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
Blog ➡️ https://buff.ly/42Cja5X
Full paper ➡️ https://buff.ly/3Cjwguo
#FridayReads #ocean #climateaction
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🔖📈👇 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...
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.
www.seattletimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🔖📈👇 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...
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...
Publications - IPCC-TFI
www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp
January 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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...
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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! 👏 👏 👏
December 11, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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! 👏 👏 👏
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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:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 13, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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...
open.substack.com/pub/rickberg...
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...
open.substack.com
July 3, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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...
open.substack.com/pub/rickberg...
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-...
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...
nori.com
March 26, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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-...
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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...
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...
March 19, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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...
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...
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.
February 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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.
A nice high-level economics perspective that is often missing from conversations within the VCM. The discussion on durability was particularly good. Important things to consider to best address climate change and create solid carbon and CDR markets.
📢 New EDF Economics Discussion Paper 📢
Title: "Design Concerns for Agricultural Soil Carbon Markets: An Economic Research Agenda" by Kelsey Larson
EDF's EDP Series www.edf.org/economics-di...
Stay tuned for more groundbreaking insights in the Economics Discussion Paper Series! 🚀
Title: "Design Concerns for Agricultural Soil Carbon Markets: An Economic Research Agenda" by Kelsey Larson
EDF's EDP Series www.edf.org/economics-di...
Stay tuned for more groundbreaking insights in the Economics Discussion Paper Series! 🚀
Economics Discussion Paper Series
EDF’s Economics Discussion Paper Series presents economic works, research in progress, and policy discussions written by EDF Economists and external colleagues and co-authors.
www.edf.org
January 30, 2024 at 1:34 AM
A nice high-level economics perspective that is often missing from conversations within the VCM. The discussion on durability was particularly good. Important things to consider to best address climate change and create solid carbon and CDR markets.
Just wrapping my head around this 6-month old post from Grant Faber. I expect this “marginal energy expansion” issue will severely damage trust in DAC credits in the years to come unless all registries develop mitigation requirements. carbonbasedcommentary.substack.com/p/navigating...
Navigating clean energy procurement for carbon removal companies
Energy-intensive carbon removal systems must use clean energy to actually remove carbon, but true and reliable procurement can be tricky
carbonbasedcommentary.substack.com
January 27, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Just wrapping my head around this 6-month old post from Grant Faber. I expect this “marginal energy expansion” issue will severely damage trust in DAC credits in the years to come unless all registries develop mitigation requirements. carbonbasedcommentary.substack.com/p/navigating...
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If anyone else is struggling to figure out how to "like" a feed - click through to the feed then choose the "about" tab, and you get a little heart to click on.
🌍 Passionate about Climate Solutions?
Please "Like" 👍 the Carbon Dioxide Removal feed on Bluesky to help generate more discussion around CDR for mitigating climate change.
All perspectives welcome, none filtered.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Please "Like" 👍 the Carbon Dioxide Removal feed on Bluesky to help generate more discussion around CDR for mitigating climate change.
All perspectives welcome, none filtered.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 26, 2024 at 11:34 AM
If anyone else is struggling to figure out how to "like" a feed - click through to the feed then choose the "about" tab, and you get a little heart to click on.
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🗓️🌊💡 #ThisIsCDR continues into 2024 with some great guests, starting next Tues 30 Jan with Dr. Alex Gagnon and Dr. Julian Sachs from Banyu Carbon who will explain their process to capture CO2 from seawater with light. Register via the link 👇 and bring your questions! lu.ma/TICDRep92
This Is CDR Ep92: Banyu Carbon -- Capturing Carbon with Light! · Zoom · Luma
OpenAir is excited to present This Is CDR, an online event series that explores the wide range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and...
lu.ma
January 24, 2024 at 2:11 PM
🗓️🌊💡 #ThisIsCDR continues into 2024 with some great guests, starting next Tues 30 Jan with Dr. Alex Gagnon and Dr. Julian Sachs from Banyu Carbon who will explain their process to capture CO2 from seawater with light. Register via the link 👇 and bring your questions! lu.ma/TICDRep92
🌍 Passionate about Climate Solutions?
Please "Like" 👍 the Carbon Dioxide Removal feed on Bluesky to help generate more discussion around CDR for mitigating climate change.
All perspectives welcome, none filtered.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Please "Like" 👍 the Carbon Dioxide Removal feed on Bluesky to help generate more discussion around CDR for mitigating climate change.
All perspectives welcome, none filtered.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 26, 2024 at 1:12 AM
🌍 Passionate about Climate Solutions?
Please "Like" 👍 the Carbon Dioxide Removal feed on Bluesky to help generate more discussion around CDR for mitigating climate change.
All perspectives welcome, none filtered.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Please "Like" 👍 the Carbon Dioxide Removal feed on Bluesky to help generate more discussion around CDR for mitigating climate change.
All perspectives welcome, none filtered.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Few things have made climate change more tangible for me than Kiliii Yuyan’s photo stories from the Arctic. Highly recommend www.nationalgeographic.org/society/proj...
January 26, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Few things have made climate change more tangible for me than Kiliii Yuyan’s photo stories from the Arctic. Highly recommend www.nationalgeographic.org/society/proj...
Should we prioritize temporary CDR and mitigating climate change over the next few decades more than current frameworks allow? www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...
Improved Tracking and Incentives Needed to Address Near-term Climate Change
Study from TNC, Yale and Fractal Ag reveals urgent need to adopt methodologies that recognize real-time impacts of climate change and mitigation efforts, not just long-term outcomes.
www.nature.org
January 13, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Should we prioritize temporary CDR and mitigating climate change over the next few decades more than current frameworks allow? www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...