Kelp Currency

seatrees x impact media lab collab

kelp currency: Unlocking the True Value of the Ocean’s Forests

Kelp forests are vital ocean ecosystems, offering shelter and food to coastal communities and thousands of marine species. Kelp forests may also play a crucial role in climate change mitigation, but their ability to absorb and store carbon dioxide remains virtually unknown.

Kelp Currency features groundbreaking research from the Seatrees Kelp Carbon Science Project and Scripps Institution of Oceanography to measure the carbon benefits of kelp forests. Their goal is to develop a way to track kelp carbon budgets, with the hopes of unlocking new finance tools that could provide the missing funding needed to restore kelp forests globally.

With up to 90% of California’s kelp forests lost in some areas, now is the time to invest in science that could help fund large-scale restoration efforts. This film highlights Seatrees’ and Scripps’ collaborative research to measure kelp carbon sequestration—an effort that is only just beginning…