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Innovative solutions
Climate change is a global problem so, in order to try and address it, people
around the world are devising global solutions. Have a look at some of
these innovative ocean-based global solutions which are fighting climate
change.
Sea Forester Green Gravel
Seaweed is a powerful tool for
capturing carbon, absorbing more Luckily, this process is reversible.
CO2 than trees. It also supports The team at SeaForester use a clever
fish in the sea, making our waters solution: “green gravel”.
healthier. Unlike trees, seaweed needs no
However, rising sea temperatures, soil or fertiliser. Seaweed spores
pollution, coastal developments, and are seeded onto small stones and
other factors have been destroying scattered into the ocean. The stones
these underwater carbon capturers. latch on to the underlying reef,
In the past 50 years, half of the seaweed grows and multiplies,
the earth’s kelp forests have spreading across the ocean floor.
disappeared from our coastlines.
