The Aquatic BioGX Initiative coordinates four parallel working groups (carbon, environment, biodiversity, monitoring) built on microalgae, across industry, national & local government, academia, and civil partners. From the FY2026 founding stage, members engage as principals in nation-scale real-ocean fields and in the still-unsettled formation of the ocean-derived credit market.
What follows are not perks, but the market conditions as they stand today. Read them through, and the role your company can play comes into view.
Durable deep-sea CDR credits — expected to command higher prices and rarity than forestry credits — have neither an established methodology nor an established set of suppliers. Standing in this pre-formation window means shaping the standard itself.
Sensing, materials, marine civil engineering, and water treatment only become a track record once they run in a nation-scale real-ocean field. Blue Hole provides that implementation layer as shared infrastructure.
A design anchored in international standards — London Protocol, Puro.earth, Verra, TNFD — is one of the few structures that lets decarbonization and nature recovery be told in a single project's language. Disclosure-grade facts emerge from the field itself.
Microalgae-anchored food-web recovery connects the rebuild of declining fishery resources (shellfish, finfish) to coastal industry and employment. A structure where CDR revenue funds the solving of regional problems runs continuous with a member's own business.
Once-a-year full-membership symposium. The first edition is scheduled for 30 January 2026.
Working groups assess foundational data, build a social-implementation roadmap, and develop policy recommendations. Chairs are elected by participating full members and must be full or nominated members. Each WG meets 3–5 times per year; the set expands as needed.
Multi-member alliances drive commercial social implementation, and joint initiatives accelerate deployment.
Annual fee: 1 unit = JPY 200,000. Choose a unit count that matches your engagement.
JPY 200,000 / yr
JPY 400,000 / yr
JPY 1,000,000 / yr
JPY 2,000,000 / yr
| Scope | Standard (1 unit) | Standard (2 units) | Standard (5 units) | Special (10 units) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual symposium · member-logo on website · newsletter | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ · Special Member logo |
| Working groups | 1 WG | 2 WGs | All | All |
| WG minutes & archive | Assigned WG only | Assigned WGs only | All | All |
| Slack communication | Assigned WG only (single-channel) | Assigned WGs only (multi-channel) | All (workspace member) | All (workspace member) |
| Governance engagement | — | — | Submit agenda to Steering Committee | Associate member · General Meeting · Steering Committee observer |
| Nominated-member nomination right * | — | — | — | Yes |
* Nominated members (standard-member equivalent, annual fee waived) may be proposed by Special Members for operational, deliberative, and academic contributions.
Membership inquiry, fee scheme, WG assignment, and data-sharing boundaries are negotiated individually.