Open Climate Solutions

🌊🌍 „We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do." - Sylvia Earle At Open Climate Solutions, we are inspired by this vision and are committed to playing our part in #OceanRegeneration. 🌱 We’re excited to share a short movie showcasing our first project with Kilchoan Melfort Trust, turning this vision into reality. Our project focuses on #RegenerativelyCultivatingSeaweed in Scotland’s pristine waters, which sequesters carbon and absorbs excess nutrients from the ocean. From the seaweed, we produce a nutrient-rich biostimulant and biochar for permanent carbon storage. The biostimulant helps farmers regenerate soils, improve crop yields, and withstand climate stresses while reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. 🌿💪 The biochar offers a high-quality carbon removal solution with applications in construction materials and agriculture. While seaweed is not a silver bullet for climate change, we firmly believe it plays a key role in regenerating our oceans and terrestrial environments. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Adrian Macleod, Marnik Van Cauter, Toby Dewhurst, Nate Baker and the Kames Fish Farming team for their support and commitment throughout this project. A special thanks to our advisors, especially Jens Leifeld, Rienk Smittenberg, Jannis Wernery, Markus Weinmann, Jaboury Ghazoul, Petrissa Eckle, and Chris Davies for their guidance to date. We also want to thank Rhianna Rees for joining us on harvest day and Lizzie MacKenzie for producing the film. Finally, we are deeply grateful to our donors that enabled the realisation of this project. Your continued support is invaluable to us. 🙏 Follow, join and support us to help scale this #NaturePositive solution 🙌 Scottish Association For Marine Science Kilchoan Melfort Trust Kelson Marine Co. HofLabor Scottish Seaweed Industry Association #RegenerativeCarbonRemoval #OpenClimateSolutions #KilchoanMelfortTrust #regeneration https://lnkd.in/ehZA3ZQE

Great to have you with us Rhianna Rees and share thoughts on how to collaborate to push the sector 🙏

The kelp is growing beautifully at Kilchoan Melfort Trust. We're excited to support Marnik Van Cauter and the team with harvesting it in a couple of weeks time. 🙌 Interested to see what's happening below the waterline? No worries! Check out the farm design, which we've made available #OpenSource on our GitHub account. Even comes with real life pictures! 😊 https://lnkd.in/ecWmh2_Q

Bojan, Daniel and Mátyás will be in beautiful Lisbon next Monday to Wednesday to attend the #WorldOceanSummit hosted by Economist Impact. The summit will focus on #OceanHealth, industry strategies to accelerate the #SustainableOceanEconomy, and #OceanClimateSolutions. PM them if you're there and want to meet up! 🙏

Thanks for sharing some #seaweedromance, Marnik Van Cauter! Great pleasure to work with you and the Kilchoan Melfort Trust team on this beautiful project. We're excited to be back soon to support you with the harvest. 🙏 #regenerativecarbonremoval

Please welcome our newest member: Open Climate Solutions. Open Climate Solutions is a Swiss non-profit organisation whose mission is to develop nature-based climate solutions that also support biodiversity and create benefits for society. They are convinced seaweed is one of those solutions, and their ambition is to standardize seaweed farming and do research on bio-stimulants and biochar as nature-based climate solutions. "We strongly believe that at the point where the seaweed industry is today, we need cooperation rather than competition. As a non-profit organisation, we hope to encourage collaboration, as we open source information to help other for-profit companies in the seaweed space to build their businesses". Mátyás Csiky Learn more about Open Climate Solutions: Open Climate Solutions, and read the whole interview on our website https://lnkd.in/eTW_v_6t