Seaweed Carbon Solutions (JIP)

The purpose of the JIP Seaweed Carbon Solutions is to develop technology and possible business models within nature-based solutions for CDR that can be scalable and implemented over a longer timeframe. This will be done by development of solutions for atmospheric greenhouse gas reduction through industrialized offshore ocean seaweed farming and conversion to climate positive products or solutions. The project is lead by SINTEF.

NIVA leads the task “Monitoring and assessing environmental interactions”, and will evaluate the ecosystem effects of large-scale offshore seaweed farming. Work includes:

a) Monitoring of the effects of dissolved nutrients removal by the large scaled biomass production.

b) Monitoring of the seaweed farm as a temporary habitat.

c) Evaluation of effects on the benthic ecosystem under the farm.