TY - JOUR
T1 - A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets
AU - Duarte, Carlos M.
AU - Bruhn, Annette
AU - Krause-Jensen, Dorte
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-10-13
Acknowledgements: 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.
PY - 2021/10/7
Y1 - 2021/10/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/672816
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00773-9
U2 - 10.1038/s41893-021-00773-9
DO - 10.1038/s41893-021-00773-9
M3 - Article
SN - 2398-9629
JO - Nature Sustainability
JF - Nature Sustainability
ER -