With everyday reminders of the climate crisis knocking at our doors, visionary companies are rising to the occasion to come up with sustainable solutions that achieve their business goals without harm...

With the goal of supporting an innovative circular economy solution that transforms a growing climate and environmental threat into a job‑creating industry with high economic and environmental value, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has announced the successful closing of an investment in Carbonwave, the first company to transform sargassum  into commercially viable agricultural biostimulants and cosmetic emulsifiers. Sargassum, a seaweed that once grew in an isolated part of the Atlantic Ocean, has started to bloom out of control and overwhelm beach ecosystems across…

La secretaria de Medio Ambiente, Alicia Bárcena, alertó que en las costas de Quintana Roo llegan diariamente 9 mil toneladas de sargazo, lo cual representa un problema grave para el medio ambiente y la economía local. El sargazo, al llegar a la playa, genera ácido sulfhídrico y se vuelve tóxico, por lo que el gobierno federal propone recolectarlo en altamar para procesarlo como biofertilizante. Se busca crear un parque de economía circular en Puerto Morelos, donde empresas como Carbonwave ya están trabajando en la producción de biofertilizante a partir del sargazo, incluso exportándolo a Estados Unidos. Bárcena destacó la importancia de involucrar a los hoteleros en la recolección y mencionó que el aumento de la temperatura del océano ha exacerbado el problema. La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum visitará la zona para analizar la situación y presentar una solución integral, incluyendo el manejo del Tren Maya de carga y la revisión del Parque del Jaguar, que ha generado descontento por afectar el turismo. La noticia destaca la combinación de desafíos ambientales, económicos y sociales en la región.

On a recent family trip to Mexico, I was totally heartbroken to find the beaches of Quintana Roo utterly smothered by a thick blanket of rotting, brownish-red seaweed. This is sargassum: a naturally...

México City, March 3 2026. With the goal of supporting an innovative circular economy solution that transforms a growing climate and environmental threat into a job‑creating industry with high economic and environmental value, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has announced the successful closing of an investment in Carbonwave, the first company to transform sargassum into commercially viable agricultural biostimulants and cosmetic emulsifiers. Sargassum, a seaweed that once grew in an isolated part of the Atlantic Ocean, has started to bloom out of control and overwhelm beach ecosystems across the Caribbean. It accumulates on beach ecosystems and decomposes, releasing methane into the atmosphere, leaching heavy metals into groundwater, harming tourism, and blocking sea turtle hatchlings from reaching the ocean. The ongoing costs of cleaning up and removing sargassum across the Greater Caribbean have reached alarming levels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported direct collection costs of USD 120 million in 2018 alone. These figures reflect only the expenses associated with collection and disposal and do not capture the wider economic repercussions. Since then, the scale of the problem has only increased. Losses linked to tourism—such as trip cancellations and reduced hotel occupancy—are not included...