About ONCE
Negative carbon emissions are considered to be a promising approach to the goal of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 2.0°C or perhaps even 1.5°C by the end of this century. The ocean has a large capacity to sequester carbon and has absorbed approximately 25% of the CO2 produced by fossil fuel combustion and cement production since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Increasing ocean carbon sinks by anthropogenic processes ...Read More

Nov 14, 2022
1st International Forum on Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions Held in Xiamen
On November 14, 2022, the First International Forum on Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions was held in Xiamen, China...

Mar 26, 2022
Stakeholders Provide Constructive Suggestions on the Zero Draft of 2022 UN Ocean Conference Political Declaration
On 23 March 2022, an online briefing was convened by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) to provide an ...

Nov 28, 2021
Research Center for Marine Carbon Sink and Biogeochemical Process Approved
Recently, the Research Center for Marine Carbon Sink and Biogeochemical Process under the National Natural Science Foundation of China ...
Publication

Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean
The biological pump is a process whereby CO2 in the upper ocean is fixed by primary producers and transported to the deep ocean as sinking biogenic particles or as dissolved organic...

Microbes mediated comprehensive carbon sequestration for negative emissions in the ocean
The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic is warning of a more profound crisis—climate change. Since the Industrial Revolution, anthropogenic activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, have led to...

Correcting a major error in assessing organic carbon pollution in natural waters
Microbial degradation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in aquatic environments can cause oxygen depletion, water acidification, and CO2 emissions. These problems are caused by labile DOC (LDOC) and not refractory DOC (RDOC)...

Nianzhi Jiao
Xiamen University
China

Carol Robinson
University of East Anglia
United Kingdom

Louis Legendre
Sorbonne University
France

Douglas Wallace
Dalhousie University
Canada

Jean-Pierre Gattuso
Sorbonne University
France

Pinxian Wang
Tongji University
China