Coldplay’s world tour supports low-carbon seaweed harvesting project

Seafields has been named by global music band Coldplay as an associated organisation to support the band’s efforts to make its upcoming tour as sustainable and low-carbon as possible.

As reported in MIN this week, Seafields’ proposed solution for climate change, by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean. Next month, the company will showcase this technology to a global audience at COP26 in Glasgow, demonstrating how it can remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year.

Seafields is developing and testing new technologies focused on growing and capturing sargassum, an abundant seaweed that floats in masses without attaching to the seafloor.

Coldplay has stated that it will put 10 per cent of everything it earns (touring, records, publishing etc) into a good causes fund. These funds will be split between environmental and socially conscious projects and charities which includes Seafields. 

Coldplay’s association with Seafields comes after the British rock band announced that its new tour, Music of the Spheres, will be as sustainable as possible, with one tree planted for every ticket sold and a show powered by 100 per cent renewable energy, using a ‘kinetic dancefloor’.

The tour has three main aims: to reduce consumption, recycle extensively and cut its CO2 emissions by 50 per cent. To reinvent by supporting new green technologies (e.g Seafields) and developing new sustainable, super-low carbon touring methods. Finally, to restore by making the Music of the Spheres tour as environmentally beneficial as possible by funding a portfolio of nature and technology-based projects and drawing down significantly more CO2 than the tour produces.