While searching for solutions for a sustainable planet, it is imperative to explore innovative approaches that minimise environmental impact while maximising resource efficiency for both the present and future. Vincent Doumeizel, Senior Adviser on Oceans to the United Nations Global Compact, is the author of Seaweed Revolution, a book which attempts to understand how seaweed can be utilised to restore ecological balance in a world desperately striving to cope with a constantly growing population and its consequential climate and social impacts. Academic and writer Ian A Graham is the professor of Biochemical Genetics in the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products at the University of York. His work also explores the utilisation of bio-based materials as substitutes for petrochemicals to stabilise our future. In conversation with journalist and broadcaster Aarathi Prasad, they discuss how scientific research, industrial innovation, and new operational strategies can collaborate with governments and multilateral organisations to pave a new, balanced, and sustainable path ahead.
Vincent Doumeizel is Senior Adviser for Ocean at United Nations Global Compact as well as Director of the Food Programme for the Lloyd’s Register Foundation. He led the ‘Seaweed Manifesto’ in a call to scale up the seaweed support to address the triple planetary crises. In 2023, he released The Seaweed Revolution, a reference book on seaweed.
Professor Ian Graham is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. His research focus at the University of York is on plant biology and he is academic lead for BioYorkshire, a public-private partnership committed to growing the green economy nationally and internationally.
Aarathi Prasad is the author of 3 books including Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses, and In The Bonesetter’s Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.
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