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The Seaweed Revolution: a Manifesto for a Sustainable Future

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Seaweed has the potential to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

The Seaweed Manifesto defines a vision for the seaweed industry: an upscaled, responsible and restorative seaweed industry, playing a globally significant role in food security, climate change mitigation, and support to the marine ecosystem, as well as contributing to job creation and poverty alleviation. The document also explores the challenges and barriers for the responsible development of the industry.

Introduction

This seaweed manifesto is a visionary document outlining how seaweed can contribute to delivering on the sustainable development goals. It defines a vision for the industry, explores the opportunities and benefits, as well as outlining the challenges and barriers for responsible development of the industry. The focus is on the untapped potential, which might not be met without new thought leadership and convening power to improve knowledge and expertise, develop new funding initiatives and influence policy makers, regulators and consumers. Therefore, the manifesto proposes a set of success factors for all stakeholders, and provides the basis for different initiatives that will be required. The collaborative development of the manifesto aims to create increased interest and active contributions to the responsible development of the industry from international donors, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, research centres and international companies.

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The Seaweed Revolution: a Manifesto for a Sustainable Future

Lloyd’s Register Foundation together with the United Nations Global Compact’s Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business produced a manifesto about the potential of the seaweed industry. (PDF, 2.92MB)