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The Global Seaweed Coalition is looking for its new Scientific Officer

The Global Seaweed Coalition is looking for its new Scientific Officer

The Global Seaweed Coalition is looking for its new Scientific Officer! Hosted by our founding partners from CNRS, the Scientific Officer will manage GSC funded projects and be the main contact point with project holders. Supervised by the GSC Scientific Director,...

Global Seaweed Coalition Annual Meeting: 5 October 2023 in Paris

Global Seaweed Coalition Annual Meeting: 5 October 2023 in Paris

After a busy transition year, the Global Seaweed Coalition is proud to invite our growing community to our second Annual Meeting, to be held 5 October 2023 at the Maison de l'Océan in Paris. This Annual Meeting is an opportunity to look back together at our...

Safe Seaweed Coalition becomes the Global Seaweed Coalition

Safe Seaweed Coalition becomes the Global Seaweed Coalition

Seaweed stakeholders stepping up global collaboration to scale climate and nature solutions The Safe Seaweed Coalition is proud to announce it has become the Global Seaweed Coalition (GSC), hosted by its founding partner United Nations Global Compact. The potential...

UN Plastic Treaty negotiations: Call to all Seaweed Packaging Companies

UN Plastic Treaty negotiations: Call to all Seaweed Packaging Companies

We are pleased to invite all Seaweed Packaging Companies to attend the “Seaweed as a Sustainable and Biodegradable Alternative to Plastic Packaging” meeting, taking place on the 1st of June from 11:00 to 13:00 CET (TBC) in Paris, France (location to be confirmed). The...

Member Roundtables: February 27th!

Member Roundtables: February 27th!

All our members are invited to join our member Roundtables on February 27th. We will holdtwo sessions : one at 11:00AM CET and one at 3PM CET in order to accommodate our worldwide membership. These sessions will include important updates and opportunities for members...

Congratulations to our Spring 2022 Grantees!

Congratulations to our Spring 2022 Grantees!

Our Annual Meeting in Lisbon was the opportunity to introduce our Spring 2022 Grantees to our worldwide community! After a highly competitive evaluation process by our advisory board of seaweed industry experts, the Safe Seaweed Coalition Steering Committee made the...

Thrilling moments for Seaweed at UNOC in Lisbon

Thrilling moments for Seaweed at UNOC in Lisbon

What a week for our Seaweed Revolution! We took advantage of United Nation's Ocean Conference to actively raise awareness on the potential for seaweed to support SDG14, starting with our very own Annual meeting and Seaweed Day on June 29th at Forum Picoas. Above is a...

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A Seaweed Economy Tied to the Tides

The OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9 captured this image of seaweed aquaculture in Adamson Bay on the northern part of Pemba Island on August 5, 2024.

Source : NASA

Seaweed Breakthrough

The GlobalSeaweed SUPERSTAR project, funded by the UK’s Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC), involves some of the world’s most prominent seaweed scientists, non-governmental actors and industry leaders. It aims to produce a global strategy, or ‘2030 Seaweed Breakthrough’, which will have a significant consultation phase, that will be launched next week at the UN Oceans Conference, Nice in the Blue Zone, Room 4 (13 June 2025) to urgently protect wild seaweed stocks.

Source : Global Seaweed SUPERSTAR

A Cry for Kelp: Scientists Demand Better Protection for Seaweed

A research programme investigating the threat to wild seaweed stocks caused by climate change has today called on the international community to better protect threatened species, which in turn would support seaweed farming.

Source : Fishfarming Expert