Seaweed as a Nature-based Solution for Climate Change

Seaweed provides an unlimited number of solutions to support food systems, to provide new medicines, to replaces plastics, restore biodiversity & clean the ocean and provide new source of revenues to communities where fishing is declining. Seaweed is also one of the most scalable nature-based solutions for both decarbonizing the economy and sequestering carbon from the surface of the ocean. As it grows in the sunlight zone of the ocean, seaweed fixes carbon through photosynthetic primary production. grow up to 50 cm per day and to lengths of up to 60 m fixing carbon at rates even more productive than tropical rainforests. This rapid biomass production and carbon fixation rate can be harnessed to create valuable inputs that displace emissions from emission-intensive products and sequester carbon long term in ocean sediments and abyssal waters. For more information and to watch the event, please visit this link: https://www.un.org/en/cop26/page/programme

Vincent Doumeizel, Lloyd S. Register Foundation, UN Global Compact & Safe Seaweed Coalition

Carlos Duarte, Red Sea Research Center KAUST, Global Coral Reef & Ocean 2050

Daniel Crockett, Blue Marine Foundation

Maria Teresa Garcia, Food for the Future

Professor Steve Widdicombe, Plymouth Marine Lab

Shakuntala Thilstead, World Fish, World Food Prize 2021

Owen Bethell, Nestlé