Undercurrents: September 2024
SeaGen's roundup of company news and perspective on all things climate.
Blythe Taylor, Chief of Staff
The sharp eyed among you may have noticed a change in look for Undercurrents this month. September marked the official move for us from Seaweed Generation to SeaGen. The snappy name and rebrand marks our focus on the urgent need for ocean and environmental data. We’re in the grips of a climate crisis. Hurricane Helene in the States, and central Europe’s devastating floods this month continue to reinforce the scale and immediacy of the emergency.
The task before us is huge. The solutions to it are complex. Balancing policies for immediate term needs with longer term threats are hard. Frustratingly, we already have many of the tools and know-how, and the slow pace of progress stems partly from a lack of alignment on the best path forward.
So where do we start? Data. It’s the logical first step. Addressing the issues of climate change and nature loss requires us to properly understand the problem before responding appropriately. That’s where SeaGen’s technology comes in:
Observe. Assess. Respond. Repeat ∞
We are building a global biodiversity and environmental monitoring network to help understand and protect our oceans, rivers and lakes. Using sensors, cameras, and probes, we gather environmental data that provides real insight into our changing waterways. But raw data needs analysis, organisation, narrative, and to reach the right people to be useful. Our AI powered monitoring technology puts data front and centre, providing recorded, verified and measured impact from day 1. This ensures we can take the right action.
Those actions are going to include; rebuilding our economy by moving away from fossil fuels; stopping and reversing biodiversity loss; providing food and water for around 10 billion people; and removing 10+ billion tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere every single year by 2050 (more on our progress here below). Our lakes, rivers and oceans will be central to this future, and we believe that technology (data, robotics, automation) working with nature is the key.
That’s why we do what we do. SeaGen: blue tech for a blue planet.
Read more about our direction of travel here.
Progress and Press
SeaGen are part of Airminers Kiloton Fund
AirMiners has finalised its Kiloton Fund, selecting 20 pioneering startups building technologies for carbon removal. We are thrilled to be part of this and to have the chance for an agreement with Shopify in the future.