Mid-Year Update from the CEO: A New Chapter for CRA and Climate Restoration
Last month, we announced a new chapter for Localized Ocean Fertilization, the Grandparents Fund for Climate Restoration, the Climate Restoration Alliance and Eddy Carbon Research.
The transition of the Localized Ocean Fertilization program into a dedicated organizational home is an important step forward. It gives LOF the focused structure needed to advance its research, development and practical implementation, while allowing CRA to clarify and strengthen its broader role.
This transition also gave us an opportunity to step back, review our strategy and update Our Plan to Restore the Climate by 2050 to reflect the next stage of the mission.
Building the Climate Restoration Ecosystem
Restoring the climate will require a portfolio of scientifically credible, scalable and socially responsible solutions. It will also require governments, researchers, nonprofit organizations, businesses, investors and communities to work together across countries and sectors.
CRA’s responsibility is to help create the conditions in which this can happen.
This means building the global alignment, organizational capacity and collaborative ecosystem needed to identify promising climate restoration pathways, support their development, connect them with partners and resources, establish credible methods for measuring progress and accelerate responsible implementation.
The transition of LOF into Eddy Carbon Research illustrates this model. CRA can help incubate, connect and advance an important climate restoration pathway, while a dedicated organization provides the focused leadership required for its next stage.
Preparing for Scale by 2030
The next five years will determine the next 500.
Climate restoration must move from a growing field of promising ideas and individual initiatives into a coordinated global effort capable of reaching meaningful scale by 2030.
That requires more than ambition. It requires durable institutions, transparent governance, responsible decision-making and the capacity to coordinate many actors around a shared mission.
CRA is therefore strengthening the organizational foundation needed for the next stage of growth.
Like many emerging movements, CRA began with a founder-centered structure that enabled us to move quickly, establish the mission, advance solutions like LOF and Bamboo, and build an international community. The next stage requires a governance structure capable of supporting a much larger, more diverse and more enduring organization.
We are working internally to develop our board, governance documents, committees, financial controls and accountability mechanisms. The goal is to preserve the mission while distributing authority appropriately, strengthening transparency and enabling more leaders and partners to participate.
This is not about centralizing climate restoration under one organization. It is about creating a trusted framework through which many independent actors can align, collaborate and contribute to a shared global outcome.
An Enduring Mission
Our mission remains clear: restore a safe, pre-industrial climate for humanity and future generations.
The transition of LOF, the update to our 2050 plan and the strengthening of CRA’s governance are all part of the same evolution—from launching important initiatives to building an enduring global ecosystem capable of supporting climate restoration at scale.
We are grateful to every member of the CRA community who has helped bring us to this point. Together, we are preparing not only for the next project or the next year, but for the coordinated global action required through 2030, 2050 and beyond.
Wishing you a wonderful summer,
Ilan Mandel, CEO
The Grandparents Fund for Climate Restoration
The Climate Restoration Alliance