Running Tide is proud to be one of the 40+ founding signatories to the Reykjavik Protocol, a set of best practices for the generation of nature-deployed environmental credits.

Shopify's Head of Sustainability Stacy Kauk and Running Tide's CEO Marty Odlin discuss the delivery of the first ever ocean carbon removal credits, and the role that Shopify has played in catalyzing climate innovation.

Running Tide has completed the first ever carbon removal in the open ocean for our first customer Shopify and is currently running the world's largest carbon removal research operation 190 miles south of Iceland in the North Atlantic. This is the story of how you can combine the best available science, engineering, and iterative learning loops to remove carbon.

In line with our commitment to promote transparency around our work, we are sharing additional detail into our research and development efforts that have informed our current research deployments being conducted in the North Atlantic. These deployments are designed to study the carbon removal performance of a key component of our system – the carbon buoy – and evaluate potential ecological impacts of various designs in open ocean conditions, layering in complexity over time.