Cascadia Seaweed Participates in a Groundbreaking Global Study to Quantify Carbon Sequestration by Seaweed Farms

Sidney, B.C.

— Two timely announcements and a nature-based solution for Canada. This week Oceans 2050 was celebrated as a finalist of the Keeling Curve Prize competition — a program designed to highlight and accelerate creative and practical solutions to reducing Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions — and Prime Minister Trudeau’s ambitious commitment to reduce Canada’s emissions by 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

In October 2020, Oceans 2050 Co-Founder Alexandra Cousteau and Chief Scientist Professor Carlos Duarte announced the launch of a groundbreaking global study that will help restore abundance to the world’s oceans while advancing climate restoration through seaweed aquaculture. The 15 month study, entitled ”

,” will quantify carbon sequestration by seaweed in sediment below seaweed farms across five continents, advancing the scientific basis for seaweed aquaculture as a solution to help address the climate crisis while contributing to ocean restoration, and ultimately creating market incentives to catalyze this solution. 

Cascadia Seaweed Corp. is an active participant and one of only two North American companies in this study. Chairman of Cascadia Seaweed, Bill Collins says “In an effort to deliver this solution efficiently, we must advance the research while concurrently investing in the technologies to deliver large-scale offshore farms.”

“We have a narrow window of opportunity to deliver a healthy ocean to our grandchildren’s generation, and to create sustainable enterprises along the way,” said Duarte.

Oceans 2050 Seaweed Farming Project Lead, Megan Reilly Cayten said “Creating carbon credits for seaweed farming will allow corporations and others to invest in blue carbon credits at a much larger scale than is available today, and with very meaningful co-benefits in the restoration of the oceans and the livelihoods of all that depend on them [such as the Indigenous peoples of coastal Canada].” Learn more about Oceans 2050 and the Seaweed Farming Project from Cayten, during the Cascadia Seaweed led

Festival, taking place virtually from May 17 – 23. 

“Canada has an opportunity to take the lead on this nature-based solution,” says Collins. “Being just sustainable is not enough anymore, we need to be climate positive.”

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About Cascadia Seaweed

Cascadia Seaweed is growing to be the largest North American provider of ocean cultivated seaweed — a climate-positive crop with a variety of uses requiring only the sea and sunlight to grow. This British Columbia based corporation was founded in 2019 by three maritime professionals who believe in building a profitable and scalable business that enhances the natural environment and provides economic opportunity for rural and coastal communities.

About Oceans 2050

Established in 2018, Oceans 2050’s mission is to mobilize a global alliance to restore the world’s oceans to abundance by 2050 by enabling and amplifying how people and companies across all sectors can be contributors to a common vision of an abundant future. Founded and led by

, the platform identifies and develops solutions that harness the power of markets to reshape an ocean strategy fit for current and future challenges by producing impact at a scale that is meaningful for the oceans, the climate, and the millions of people that depend on them.