Capture ID: 4134 Title: Sustainable aquaculture in Solomon Islands. Seaweed farmers planting young seedlings in shallow water, overhead aerial view. Causes Impacts Solutions: 2. Impacts, 3. Solutions, 4. Justice, 6. Adaptation, 5. Resilience Climate Visuals Principles: 1. Show real people not staged photo-ops, 2. Tell new stories, 6. Show local (but serious) climate impacts, 4. Climate impacts are emotionally powerful, 8. Sustainability must be everyones objective Description: "Ropes with young seaweed plants are tethered to underwater stakes on the shallow seabed by one of Wagina Island's seaweed farming families. These families cling to a precarious existence in the rapidly changing reef lagoon. Choiseul Province in the Solomon Islands has become a sea level rise hotspot, with the Pacific Ocean there rising three times the global average. The farmers’ fast-growing Kappaphycus red algae crop absorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide in the three months it takes to mature. But increasingly intense storm systems can rip whole lines of seaweed from their underwater tethered stakes. Warming and acidifying oceans further decrease the quality, weight and maturation rate of the seaweed. The islanders' produce is sold to France, Vietnam and China for everything from pharmaceuticals to food stabilisers: an important source of foreign exchange for the Solomons. Without income from such sustainable aquaculture the villagers might turn to other income sources to survive, catching turtles and sharks which puts the delicate marine lagoon ecosystem at risk. The average Solomon Islander has a fossil fuel footprint of just 430 kg per year. Yet they face the greatest loss of lives, livelihoods, land and culture from climate change. The sandbar island they live on has lost over 50% of its size in the last decade - offering a vision of the future for coastal communities around the world." City: Beneamina Island Region: South Pacific Ocean Country: Solomon Islands Agency: Climate Visuals Licence type: Creative Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Mandatory Credit: Adam Sébire / Climate Visuals Australian Artist-filmmaker Adam Sébire was in the Norwegian Arctic researching a PhD on visual art & climate change when border closures marooned him there for 18 months. He's since become one of the Arctic’s 4 million human inhabitants, with a front-row view on this climate change hotspot. Adam had just graduated as a documentary maker in 2004 when his experience of rising seas on the atoll nation of Tuvalu, only 2m above the Pacific Ocean, turned his focus to climate change. Fifteen years later he found himself in the middle of the 187cm Venice flood disaster. His climate-art videos, installations and photographs have been shown in film festivals, art galleries, museums and on TV around the world. Photographer name: Adam Sébire Photographer based in: Australia Social media: www.instagram.com/adam_sebire Website: www.adamsebire.info/the-works/anthropoScenes