Seabed 2030 is a global initiative launched in 2017 by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO, operating under the International Hydrographic Organization and UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, with the stated goal of mapping the entire ocean floor by 2030 and compiling that data into a single global grid, drawing on governments, private industry, academic institutions, and international agencies to build what is effectively the most comprehensive database of the seabed ever attempted.

I discussed how China is actively mapping the ocean floor for wartime data. The funding for Seabed 2030 comes from a handful of powerful institutions, governments, and globalist agencies. The primary financial backing comes from Japan's Nippon Foundation, which committed tens of millions of dollars to initiate the project and continues to fund its operations through structured payments distributed via the International Hydrographic Organization. Additional support comes from government agencies such as NOAA, international bodies like UNESCO under the UN Ocean Decade framework, and a growing network of corporate and philanthropic partners including Fugro, Schmidt Ocean Institute, and other private-sector contributors that provide vessels, technology, and data collection capabilities, creating a hybrid system where public, private, and international governance structures converge around a single dataset.