UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN

GAZELLE

The vicious cycle of overgrazing and desertification in Sub-Saharan Africa driven by human impact and rising global temperatures and the absence of a means for impoverished and uneducated ranchers to sustainably manage their land places millions of people at economic risk and causes massive ecological deterioration, as 60% of wild grazers have died. Gazelle is the onestop-shop, accessible, and simple-to-use offline mobile application built for ranchers that calculates the sustainable carrying capacity of a pasture, provides comprehensive land and livestock management, and includes a verified carbon offset trading platform to empower ranchers to make confident, data-driven decisions while being rewarded through carbon sequestration.

Thousands of offshore oil and gas platforms have been built and decommissioned till date, but less than 10 have been repurposed for a new use. Recent data, however, suggests that platform repurposing is not only economically feasible but also environmentally valuable. Project Xylem can provide international policy expertise to oil companies globally, even in countries that don’t have existing initiatives in this field. We are developing models for the platforms to be converted to sites for green hydrogen production, carbon capture, and/or aquaculture.

PROJECT XYLEM

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