Global Ocean Health Awarded Climate Intervention Grant

October 8, 2025

We’re honored to announce that Global Ocean Health has been selected for a US $75,000 grant from the Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF) to support our work assessing the social and environmental impacts of ocean-based carbon removal.

The grant will enable us to develop community-recommended guiding principles and management thresholds for field trials planned in the North Pacific by Exploring Ocean Iron Solutions (ExOIS), a research consortium led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. ExOIS is seeking to comprehensively assess the CO2 sequestration technique known as ocean iron fertilization (OIF). This work marks an early step in our long-term initiative to develop sound governance systems for marine carbon removal, centering principles from marine resource management that have emerged from generations of experience in fisheries and other fields.

GOH is partnering with the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal at American University to structure and publish research on stakeholder outreach and social impact assessment.

Read more about this round of awards at cieif.org/current-grants.

Satellite image showing fine sediments and phytoplankton over the shallow nearshore waters and continental shelf of northern Gulf of Alaska, March 13, 2008. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory, NASA image by Norman Kuring, MODIS Ocean Color Team