[C]Worthy Secures New ORCA & PJMF Support To Scale Open-Source mCDR Tools

[C]Worthy has secured new multi-year awards from the Ocean Resilience and Climate Alliance (ORCA) and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF), who are backing the scaling of its open-source marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) tools.

The newly announced awards will provide a boost for the development and deployment of reliable measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) tools needed to scale ocean‑based climate solutions. 

mCDR decarbonization technologies leverage the ocean’s natural CO₂-absorbing capacity to clear the air from excess carbon pollution. While these solutions are regarded as promising in the fight against climate change, their safe and responsible deployment will require rigorous, science-based assessments to track and evaluate carbon removal results. 

With this partnership, ORCA and PJMF are backing [C]Worthy’s open‑source modeling platform for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of ocean-based CDR, underlining the pressing need for a transparent scientific infrastructure to power the advancement of safe and trustworthy mCDR technologies. 

[C]Worthy is developing computational systems and accessible datasets that quantify the impact of CDR technologies on carbon removal budgets and marine ecosystems.

Through these tools, the organization helps researchers and private sector innovators access the best available scientific models via an open-source, standardized, and streamlined platform that lays the infrastructural foundation for identifying and scaling effective CDR projects.

As part of its ambition of delivering computational technologies for quantitative assessments of mCDR, [C]Worthy also develops community datasets for modalities within this field, like Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement and Direct Ocean Removal. 

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[C]Worthy has also come up with an innovative organizational structure, setting up operations as a Focused Research Organization (FRO). Acting as a novel form of a non-profit startup, the FRO structure aims to achieve major advances via a coordinated engineering approach conventionally inaccessible in academic settings or through traditional science funding mechanisms. 

Commenting on the ORCA and PJMF awards, [C]Worthy CEO Matthew Long stated, “The ocean holds enormous potential for carbon removal, but we cannot scale what we cannot measure. We’re building public, scientifically credible infrastructure that will let innovators build effective technology and enable society to assess new options with clarity and care.”

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