Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Joins World Ocean Council (WOC)

The World Ocean Council (WOC) announces that Ocean-based Climate Solutions, Inc. (OBCS), a climate restoration company that uses renewable wave energy to fertilize phytoplankton and sequester carbon, has joined the WOC.

Phil Kithil, CEO of Ocean-based, said, “Ocean-based is pleased to be a part of the WOC's global leadership efforts to bring together the business and investment community to responsibly advance the ocean’s role in reducing CO₂ levels. The ocean is the biggest CO₂ sink and the WOC’s role is crucial in developing an international private sector community of practice focused on ocean restoration, CO₂ removal and blue carbon”.

Ocean-based is on a mission to reverse climate change and restore our oceans by deploying autonomous upwelling pumps for governments and public corporations to meet CO₂ removal goals. The wave-powered technology upwells cold nutrient-rich seawater to trigger phytoplankton growth, which absorbs CO₂, cools ocean surfaces, restores local aquatic ecosystems, and provides jobs in port cities around the world.

Paul Holthus, WOC Founding President and CEO, said, “We are honored to have Ocean-based join the WOC. They have been an active participant in the growing WOC Ocean Restoration/CO2 Removal/Blue Carbon program, which builds on the WOC efforts on ocean CO₂ sequestration that began in 2012."

The WOC “Ocean Restoration/CO₂ Removal/Blue Carbon Roundtable” is an invitation-only forum which meets monthly to catalyze business and investment leadership in advancing nature-based solutions and negative emissions technologies (NETs) that optimize the role of the ocean in carbon sequestration and ecosystem renewal.

Ocean Based will be providing a series of webinars CO₂ removal and upwelling pumps on August 25-26, 2021. 

Click here to register: Artificial Upwelling Pumps for Carbon Dioxide Removal

The webinars will include: Description of Artificial Upwelling Pumps; Co-benefits; Costs; Permanence & Durability; Additionality, Monitoring, Measuring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV); Data Gaps; Stakeholders and Social Acceptance; Climate Equity; Livelihood and Community Benefits.