The Solid Carbon project, led by Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria, has been awarded $24 million over six years through the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF).
The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, as the initial, $1-million funder of the project’s feasibility study, welcomes today’s announcement and congratulates the Solid Carbon team.
Solid Carbon: The Ocean’s Rock-solid Sociotechnical Climate Solution was among six initiatives awarded funding under the NFRF’s Transformation stream, which supports large-scale Canadian-led interdisciplinary research with the potential to realize real and lasting change for major challenges.
Solid Carbon is developing an offshore carbon dioxide removal climate change mitigation technology that will enable safe and permanent storage of CO2 as rock, in deep ocean basalt.
Read more about the announcement and the Solid Carbon project.
