Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy 1st Annual Conference on Carbon Removal Law and Policy:

Exploring Ocean-Based CDR Approaches

Agenda

*Subject to change

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Tuesday, September 21st 2021

10:00 am – 10:15 am EDT

WELCOME

  • Wil Burns, Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy & Visiting Professor, Environmental Policy & Culture Program, Northwestern University
  • Jenn Brown, Project Manager, Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy

10:15 am – 11:45 am EDT

ROUNDTABLE: Domestic Legal Frameworks for Ocean CDR

Moderator: Romany Webb, Associate Research Scholar, Sabin Center at Columbia Law School

  • Korey Silverman-Roati, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
  • Alexander Proelss, University of Hamburg School of Law
  • Lei Zhang, Shandong University of Science and Technology
  • Keyuan Zou, Lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire

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11:45 am – 12:45 pm EDT

Lunch Break

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT

ROUNDTABLE: Ocean CDR Business and Investment: What the Law and Policy Community Needs to Know

Moderator: Paul Holthus, Founding President & CEO, World Ocean Council

  • Gaurav Sant, Co-Founder, SeaChange
  • Mike Kelland, CEO, Planetary Hydrogen
  • Phil Kithil, Founder and CEO, Ocean-based
  • Marc von Keitz, Director, Oceans, Grantham
  • Marty Odlin, CEO, Running Tide
  • Ryan Orbuch, Procurement Lead, Stripe Climate

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2:45 pm – 4:15 pm EDT

PANEL: Exploring Intersections Between Public Engagement and Justice in Ocean-based CDR

Moderator & Panelist: Elisa Graffy, Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society and in the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO), Arizona State University.

  • Brad Warren, Global Ocean Health program, National Fisheries Conservation Center

  • Wil Burns, Visiting Professor, Environmental Policy & Culture Program, Northwestern University

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm EDT

PRESENTATION: Research Governance for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal

Presenters:

  • Rebecca Loomis, Legal Fellow, Oceans Division, Nature Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Simon Engler, J.D. Candidate, Yale Law School

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Wednesday September 22nd, 2021

9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT

PANEL: International Regulation of Ocean CDR Options

Panelists:

·     Kerryn Brent, Lecturer, Adelaide Law School

·      Jan MacDonald, Professor, University of Tasmania Law School

·      Chris Vivian, Co-Chair GESAMP Working Group on Ocean Interventions for  Climate Change Mitigation and Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

10:30 am – 12:45 am EDT

Lunch Break

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT

PANEL: Case Studies in Ocean CDR Project Development: Legal Aspects

Moderator: Brad Ack, Executive Director and Chief Innovation Officer, Ocean Visions

Panelists:

  • Max Chalfin, Director of Research, Running Tide
  • Tom Green, Executive Director, Project Vesta
  • Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
  • Alyson Myers, President, Fearless Fund
  • Bren Smith, Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder, GreenWave

2:45 pm – 4:15 pm EDT

PANEL: Setting Standards for Carbon Storage, Duration and Risk: Lessons from Carbon Capture and Sequestration in the Nearshore Seabed

Panelists:

  • Sarah Cooley, Director of Climate Science, Ocean Conservancy
  • Tracy Hester, Professor, University of Houston Law Center
  • Romany Webb, Associate Research Scholar, Sabin Center at Columbia Law School

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