Harnessing nature to
fix the climate crisis and
restore the oceans
For All of Us
Seafields is developing sustainable open-ocean aquafarms irrigated with proprietary upwelling pipes, sequestering carbon naturally and storing it in safe and permanent depots in the deep ocean.
Sargassum is not going anywhere – so we utilise it in the fight to fix the climate and heal the oceans.
Seafields was introduced to the world at COP26 and since then have built a ocean and carbon science focused team.
With experts in sub sea cable recycling, green fundraising and investment practices, marine environment, carbon cycling and farming we are building a team that doesn’t just care – but has the tools to make a difference.
Reducing our carbon output is only fixing one part of a global problem.
The only way to not only reach net zero but regenerate our life giving eco systems is to remove – or sequester – some of the 50 gigatonnes of CO2 we emit each year. A sinking ship isn’t saved solely by plugging the leaks. If no one gets in there with a bucket the whole thing is going down.
Can you picture a ton of CO2?
A gigaton? A gigaton is a billion tons, an unimaginable burden for our atmosphere, our health and our planet.
It feels abstract, a gas, so lets quantify . One tonne of CO2 is the approximate amount released on a return flight from London to New York. In the US there are 276 million cars, releasing 1.27 gigatons a year. Every human being standing on a scale weights less than a quarter of that. To sequester the 50GtCO2 a year that experts estimate would make a real impact on the environment requires collaboration at a scale humanity has never seen before.
We don’t have competition, we have allies to our cause.
Carbon sequestration isn’t new. Tree planting projects and other terrestrial activities require geopolitical will that doesn’t exist, and space that people need to live and survive on.
To fix the problem at the scale needed we would need to plant 1.2 trillion trees. The space, will and effectiveness of this make it only one angle from which to tackle the problem.
Is terrestrial carbon sequestering really nature’s best solution?
We need to plant 1.2 trillion trees to solve the problem terrestrially. The geopolitical challenge of this makes it practically unachievable, plus trees take time to grow and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Hosted by our Scientific Project Lead Franziska Elmer and featuring Dr Mar Fernandez-Mendez and Victor Smetacek.
Since 2011, vast masses of the free-floating algae Sargassum have been washing ashore on Caribbean beaches – some leaving coastlines three-feet deep in seaweed.
When it isn’t rotting on beaches, Sargassum has incredible properties and could fuel an entire new blue economy.
The Sargassum Podcast aims to cure marine science blindness by providing listeners with an in-depth look into how sargassum impacts local communities, coastal biomes, and the world at large – and how we can harvest it to build a diversified blue economy.
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'No conversation about the ocean is about the ocean alone, you cannot separate the ocean from the climate crisis. None of the climate crisis can be dealt with without ocean solutions'
@JohnKerry, elder US statesman at the UN Ocean conference in Lisbon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwWScYeyD7c
Investors are still backing fossil fuels, and governments still hand out billions in subsidies for coal, oil and gas - some $11 million every minute.
For the health of our societies and planet, we need to quit our addiction to fossil fuels.
Now.
