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Join the Coalition next week at Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s Safer World Conference!
The Seaweed industry and the Coalition will feature prominently next week at Lloyd's Register Foundation's Safer World Conference in London, a two-day hybrid conference bringing together thought leaders from research, academia, business and government to discuss...
The United Nations Environment Programme is looking for a Seaweed Farming Expert
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is looking for a Seaweed Farming Expert to carry out a technical in-depth situational analysis for the design and implementation of a sustainable scaling model for seaweed farming. This work will verify seaweed farming...
Safe Seaweed Coalition: 2021 Lookback & 2022 Look Forward
As the Safe Seaweed Coalition enters its second year of existence, our team wishes to look back at the substantial achievements of 2021 and the exciting agenda for seaweed in this coming year. In view of our worldwide geographic dispersion, we will organize two...
Our members from Sea Forest are looking for an experienced COO to join their fast growing team
Our members from Sea Forest in Tasmania are well positioned to become a leading player in the fast developing Asparagopsis market! Following the rapid growth in their business (see more in this brief video), they are looking for an experienced senior operations...
The Safe Seaweed Coalition awards €700,000 in first Call for Proposals
After a highly competitive evaluation process by an advisory board of seaweed industry experts, the Safe Seaweed Coalition Steering Committee announced the results of its first call for proposals. Sixteen projects were selected for funding, with a total value of about...
COP26: positioning seaweed as a powerful ocean-based climate solution
COP26 brought the seaweed family together to position seaweed as a multifaceted ocean-based solution to tackle Climate Change. In the Blue Food session organized by our UNGC partners, seaweed –presented as a powerful tool for bridging nutrition needs with climate...
Safe Seaweed by Design is launching a survey on safety hazards in the seaweed sector
Our partners from Safe Seaweed by Design, a project led by the Wageningen University, are launching a study to assess the most important occupational, environmental and food safety hazards in the seaweed sector. We strongly support this initiative that falls fully...
The Safe Seaweed Coalition Roundtables are opening next week!
The Safe Seaweed Coalition Roundtables are opening next week, April 13th 2PM (GMT+1), with a discussion on Seaweed in Africa! In the perspective of creating a space for collaboration between seaweed stakeholders in Africa, our members will identify challenges and...
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Japan to Launch Offshore & "Blue Carbon" Study for CO2 Capture, Storage
The Japanese government will launch offshore "blue carbon" research aimed at capturing carbon dioxide through cultivated sea plants and storing it in the deep sea to accelerate decarbonization, sources familiar with the matter said Monday.
Source : Kyodo News
BioMara Positions Seaweed-Derived Ingredient for Gut Health
Scottish seaweed biotechnology company BioMara is scaling up production of its proprietary fucoidan ingredient, Thalivra, derived from brown-seaweed to support gut and immune health.
Source : Nutra Ingredients
Seaweed Can Replace Fossil Fuel-Derived Ingredients in Everyday Products
Food tech startup Marine Biologics uses seaweed from Alaska to create what it calls “the world’s first programmable biomass” that can replace fossil fuel derivatives in everyday products.
Source : Triple Pundit
Could Seaweed Be the Key to Critical Mineral Independence?
New biomining platform eschews environmentally destructive conventional mining to source critical minerals via photosynthetic marine systems.
Source : Sustainable Brands
Australian Seaweed Farm Tackles Burps to Help climate
It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilisers: lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop destined to curb livestock's climate-altering flatulence and belches.
Source : France 24
How Oceanium is Creating Food, Skincare Products, and Ink from Regeneratively Farmed Seaweed
Oceanium CEO and co-founder Karen Scofield Seal explains why emerging seaweed markets could become a multi-billion-pound opportunity and an 'invaluable tool' in the fight against climate change.
Source : Business Green
Study Reveals Potential of Seaweed Farms as Carbon Storage Solution
New research shows seaweed farms store carbon as effectively as natural coastal ecosystems, increasing the potential of marine carbon removal methods.
Source : IAEA
European Project Combines Robotics and Kelp Farming to Restore Ocean Ecosystems
The project, a collaboration between the University of Graz, Carbon Kapture, and the BioDiMoBot initiative, aims to improve ocean monitoring and ecosystem restoration.
Source : International Aquafeed
ONC and Cascadia Seaweed Partner to Support Sustainable Aquaculture
The two-year partnership focused on environmental monitoring off the west coast of Vancouver Island to understand the relationship between kelp forests and fish biodiversity.
Source : Ocean Networks Canada
Seaweed Processing Pioneer Completes Commercial-Scale Trials
Edinburgh-based seaweed biotechnology company BioMara has successfully completed commercial-scale trials of its proprietary fucoidan extraction process at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), the UK’s premier bioprocessing facility, in Redcar, northeast England.
Source : Fish Farming Expert