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Carbon to Sea Initiative

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ128033804 ↗
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The Carbon to Sea Initiative is an international non-profit scientific research program founded by Additional Ventures. It is a consortium of philanthropies.

Background

The Carbon to Sea Initiative was founded by Mike Schroepfer, who served previously as Meta Platforms' chief technology officer. It was spun out of Schroepfer's fund Additional Ventures and is chaired by Schroepfer.

Research

In 2023, it raised more than US$50 million for research into ocean alkalinity and if its modification could be an effective way to remove carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere. As part of that research effort, Dalhousie University received $15 million in research funding.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Carbon, Initiative and Open-knowledge can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Carbon to Sea Initiative” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.