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John Auckland, an experienced entrepreneur who has helped more than 90 companies raise over £60m in investment funding. Dr Mar Fernández, Seafields’ Chief Scientific Officer, said: “While tree-planting and other landbased initiatives are all making a contribution, the ocean represents 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface and offers us the best possible solution in addressing climate change. With carefully managed processes in place, we can cultivate Sargassum offshore by irrigating the surface with nutrient-rich deep waters. Pelagic Sargassum is a seaweed that is unique in its ability to float freely and sequester carbon efficiently due to its rapid growth rate and high carbon to nitrogen ratio. “We will store compressed bales of Sargassum in selected places at the seafloor to ensure long-term removal of billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere without creating an environmental burden on the deep
sea. Aquafarming will also promote the restoration of marine ecosystems, helping many ocean species to survive and thrive, and produce seaweed which can be utilised to create useful and sustainable consumer goods.” John Auckland said: “Seafields is the most exciting idea I’ve seen in terms of its potential for tackling the climate emergency. By sustainably growing Sargassum, we will use the vast space available in the ocean to meet the coming demand for carbon credits over the next two decades, while also removing billions of tonnes of CO2 from our atmosphere. This is the ocean equivalent of planting trees across the entire Sahara Desert.
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“We look forward to showcasing our solution to delegates at the COP26 conference in Glasgow and then focusing on successfully completing our pilot project off the coast of Cape Verde.”
COLDPLAY’S SUSTAINABLE TOUR Top band Coldplay have chosen Seafields to help make their upcoming Music Of The Spheres Tour as sustainable and low-carbon as possible. The tour’s three key principles are: Reduce consumption, recycle extensively and cut its CO2 emissions by 50%; Reinvent by supporting new green technologies and developing new sustainable, super-low carbon touring methods; and Restore by making the tour as environmentally beneficial as possible by funding a portfolio of nature, and technology-based projects and drawing down significantly more CO2 than the tour produces. Coldplay has also pledged to donate 10% of total earnings from the tour into a good causes fund, which includes Seafields.
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