Workshop Explores MRV Challenges for Geochemical Carbon Dioxide Removal

Katherine Gaynor
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Photo courtesy of YCNCC

Experts from academia, industry, and civil society gathered at Yale on May 5-6, 2026 for a workshop on “Leveraging AI to Predict Responses to Open-System Geochemical Climate Intervention” to discuss gaps and challenges relating to monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of geochemical carbon dioxide removal (CDR). 

The workshop was led by Yale Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) faculty members Elizabeth Yankovsky, Luke Gloege, and Noah Planavsky, and was supported by generous funding from the Bezos Earth Fund AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge. The objective of the workshop was to collect feedback from experts and practitioners on geochemical CDR MRV gaps and challenges with an eye towards creating open source tools to reconcile model scale to accurately, rapidly, and economically forecast and measure the outcomes of geochemical climate interventions.

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Photo of Captura’s Dr. Sophie Chu – courtesy of YCNCC

In addition to Yale researchers, representatives from the following institutions, organizations, and companies participated in the workshop: Banyu Carbon, Bezos Earth Fund, Captura, Carbon to Sea Initiative, CREW Carbon, Ebb Carbon, Georgia Institute of Technology, InPlanet, Isometric, Lithos Carbon, Mati Carbon, Terradot, Texas A&M University, University of Cambridge, and Vesta, PBC. A follow-up virtual workshop will be held over the summer for geochemical CDR company MRV leads who were unable to attend in-person.

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