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Marine Permaculture cultivation, sinking and storage of deep blue seaweed biomass carbon in Australian EEZ waters

There is significant industry and accredited expert research going into analysing the carbon benefits of seaweed. This project intends to fix and store deep-ocean carbon over a broad specified area in Queensland and New South Wales. As part of the project Climate Foundation will sink seaweed equivalent to a net sequestration of 3000 Tonnes of CO2 per km2 within a period of 18 months. This project aims to demonstrate, for the first time, that regenerating deep ocean carbon export and storage by growing and sinking macroalgae can serve as an economical and effective source of blue carbon removal. The project will serve to effectively and logically demonstrate the potential of deep ocean sequestration through macroalgae and will accelerate efforts to develop and accredit a deep ocean macroalgae carbon export methodology, so that a number of nearshore and offshore seaweed farmers can engage in similar projects that use macroalgae as a source of carbon export.

Project date

29 May 2021-29 Nov 2022
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Principal investigator

Brian Von Herzen

Research organisations

Climate Foundation Australia Ltd

Project funded by

Multiple industries
Alternative protein Aquaculture Cereal grains Cross industry Essential oils Fruits Game Honey bees Nuts Other rural industries Pasture, fodder & feed Poultry Pulse grains

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    Australia

  • Organisation type

    Research funding body

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Sustainabilities

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