YCNCC Workshop Explores Jurisdictional Monitoring of Enhanced Weathering

The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) and Carbon Removal Standards Initiative (CRSI) co-hosted a workshop on October 9, 2025, on Yale’s campus that convened a group of experts from the fields of enhanced weathering (EW), forestry, and soil organic carbon to explore frameworks to determine uncertainty as EW moves from small-scale pilots to large-scale deployment. A specific focus for the group was to ground these emergent frameworks for EW in learnings from measuring and monitoring forest and soil organic carbon.

Aggregated (or jurisdictional) approaches to monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) are a key next step to advancing EW, and an important area of YCNCC research – so this is a continuing conversation and inquiry that will build on the outcomes of this workshop (including a peer-reviewed perspectives article). YCNCC’s Workshop Grants Program is designed to host this kind of focused interdisciplinary gathering.

YCNCC Scientific Leadership Team member and Earth & Planetary Sciences Professor Noah Planavsky hosted the meeting, along with CRSI Executive Director Anu Khan. Other Yale attendees included YCNCC Co-Director Pete Raymond, Managing Director Toby Bryce, Scientific Leadership Team members Mark Bradford and Sara Kuebbing; Faculty Affiliate Emily Oldfield; Research Scientist Alex Polussa; Postdoctoral Fellow Jesper Surhoff; Graduate Researcher Ella Milliken; and Undergraduate Researcher Ella Xu. External attendees included representatives of Georgia Tech University, University of Illinois, Carbonplan, Cascade Climate, Clean Air Taskforce, Isometric, and 350Solutions.