A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets
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Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) DivisionMarine Science Program
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
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2021-10-07Online Publication Date
2021-10-07Print Publication Date
2022-03Embargo End Date
2022-04-07Submitted Date
2021-01-29Permanent link to this record
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Seaweed aquaculture accounts for 51.3% of global mariculture production and grows at 6.2% yr−1 (2000–2018). It delivers a broad range of ecosystem services, providing a source of food and natural products across a range of industries. It also offers a versatile, nature-based solution for climate change mitigation and adaptation and for counteracting eutrophication and biodiversity crisis. Here we offer the perspective that scaling up seaweed aquaculture as an emission capture and utilization technology, one supporting a circular bioeconomy, is an imperative to accommodate more than 9 billion people in 2050 while advancing across many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.Citation
Duarte, C. M., Bruhn, A., & Krause-Jensen, D. (2021). A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets. Nature Sustainability. doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00773-9Sponsors
This research was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology through baseline funding to C.M.D. A.B. was supported by the Danish Center for Environment and Energy (DCE), the Velux Foundations (Tang.nu, contract no. 13744) and the Innovation Fund Denmark (ClimateFeed). D.K.-J. was funded by DCE and by EU H2020 (FutureMARES, contract no. 869300). We thank T. Christensen, Aarhus University, for producing the manuscript figures.Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal
Nature SustainabilityAdditional Links
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00773-9ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/s41893-021-00773-9