Plan-Sea:-Ocean-Interventions-to-Address-Climate-Change

Take on a podcast episode from Plan Sea: Ocean Interventions to Address Climate Change, originally published Thu, 10 Se. Listen: <> TL;DR Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) walks through the ReSCUE Oceans Act, a bipartisan bill to set up a federal framework for marine CDR research. Useful primer, light on specifics. Bill would coordinate NOAA, NASA, NSF around mCDR (including ocean alkalinity enhancement). No dollar figure — “we’ll work that out.” Notable gap. Bipartisan co-sponsors: Schatz (D-HI), Murkowski (R-AK) in Senate; Bonamici and Buddy Carter (R-GA) in House. Realistic path unclear this Congress. Separate win discussed: bipartisan bill to block NSF from decommissioning the Ocean Observatories Initiative buoys. Small but concrete measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV)-adjacent story. On the Trump administration gutting NOAA’s mCDR capacity: acknowledged as a problem, no strategy offered beyond “hopefully rehire.” Wil Burns (American University’s Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal) and guest co-host Priyanka Hooghan (Carbon to Sea) interview Rep. Suzanne Bonamici in her Capitol Hill office. The conversation covers the ReSCUE Oceans Act — Removing and Sequestering Carbon Unleashed in the Environment and Oceans — plus her work as bipartisan Oceans Caucus co-chair and a side fight over ocean observing infrastructure. ...

Take on a podcast episode from Plan Sea: Ocean Interventions to Address Climate Change, originally published Thu, 28 Ma. Listen: <> TL;DR Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) scale-up talk is “far too premature” per Ken Paul; local knowledge should shape monitoring design first. Useful pressure on the field’s pacing. Fawn Sharp cites a Carbon to Sea-commissioned figure: ~$1T marine CDR value and 200,000 jobs by 2050. Advocacy number — I haven’t seen it independently sourced. Sovereignty-as-regulatory-arbitrage: in 2008, tribal nations could access Kyoto markets ($32/t) that US companies couldn’t ($2–3/t domestic). First time I’ve heard this mechanism on a podcast. Concrete partnership asks: direct capital access to Indigenous communities, impact benefit agreements, revenue sharing on mCDR in unceded territories — not just consultation. “Two-Eyed Seeing” framing: integrate Indigenous and Western methodologies up front, not run them in parallel and hope they converge. This episode of Plan Sea was recorded live at Carbon to Sea’s 2026 annual convening in Halifax, with Anna Madlener and Danny Głowacki hosting three Indigenous leaders: Fawn Sharp (five-term Quinault Nation president, former National Congress of American Indians president), Ken Paul (Wolastoqey Nation, former national fisheries director at the Assembly of First Nations), and Francesca Hillery (Tribal Carbon Solutions, Round Valley Tribes). The subject is how Indigenous knowledge systems and tribal sovereignty intersect with OAE development. ...