MCF Seminar: Foresight to anticipate mCDR futures

To ensure that the ‘hope’ around marine CO2 removal (mCDR) does not promote ‘hype,’ there is a need for holistic, anticipatory assessments of the future (in)feasibility and (un)desirability of these approaches. Drawing on a qualitative foresight process which involved members of regulatory bodies, scientists and societal stakeholders in Germany, this seminar outlines how participatory scenario development can; 1) facilitate transdisciplinary knowledge co-production about mCDR futures at the science-society-policy interface; 2) widen understandings of plausibly (in)feasible and (un)desirable mCDR developments; and; 3) identify policy instruments which may be robust across a wide range of mCDR futures. 

About the speaker:

Miranda Boettcher is a Research Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She combines her expertise in Global Environmental Politics, the Sociology of Knowledge, and Foresight to analyze the emergence and legitimization of future policy options at the ocean-climate nexus. She is currently a Project Leader on the German-government funded project ASMASYS-II-C, assessing the potential of marine carbon removal, with a focus on future policy and governance pathways.