Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
World Economic Forum Energy Solutions
Public sector financing is not sufficient to meet an estimated $4 trillion to $6 trillion a year needed for a global net zero transformation. But the public sector can provided targeted support to address market failures and nurture public-private collaboration.
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World Economic Forum Energy Solutions
The climate crisis was high on the agenda at Davos 2023.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Applicants are being sought for Hatch’s inaugural global aquaculture incubator, which will take place in Hawai’i.
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Blake Scholl, World Economic Forum Tourism
Air travel connects the world, but emissions from the aviation sector are responsible for a large part of humankind's carbon footprint.
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Steven Hermans Fisheries & Aquaculture
2023 Seaweed State of the Industry.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Impact
City planning for climate change adaptation must cut across sectors.
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Economic Impact Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
Economist Impact’s Martin Koehring highlights why stronger collaboration will be required to accelerate progress in 2023.
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Observer Research Foundation Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
Eighty per cent of world trade happens using the seas, 40 per cent of the world’s population live near coastal areas, and more than three billion people access the oceans for their livelihood.
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Economic Impact
Tomorrow’s blue economy can offer young people roles with a sense of purpose.
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Niki Natarajan, Impact Investor
As John Kerry, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, continues to high-light the inextricable link between oceans and the climate, UN Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water is starting to make its way on to impact investment agendas.
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Diane Stirling, Syracuse University News Fisheries & Aquaculture
Can Kelp Help? Research Examines Dairy Farmer, Dairy Nutritionist Attitudes on Adding Feed Additive to Cut Methane Emissions
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Heather Richards, Energy Wire Energy Solutions
Offshore wind advanced at a dizzying pace in 2022, from billion-dollar bids in New York to turbine installation vessels arriving in New England waters.
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Sarah LaBrecque, Reuters Energy Solutions
Healthy coastal ecosystems are also critical to the world’s ability to withstand the impact of climate change.
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Urban Ocean Lab Fisheries & Aquaculture
An informative factsheet on what regenerative ocean farming is, why it matters, and the benefits it provides.
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The Japan Times Fisheries & Aquaculture
Local fisheries cooperatives, governments and companies in the Kushiro district in eastern Hokkaido are pushing to increase the amount of “blue carbon” — a term referring to carbon captured by coastal and marine ecosystems — absorbed by artificial seaweed beds installed along the shore.
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Michael van Niekerk, Investment Magazine Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
The ocean or the global “blue economy” contributes US$2.5 trillion ($3.8 trillion) a year in economic output – equivalent to world’s seventh-largest economy by GDP – and is expected to expand at twice the rate of the mainstream economy, reaching US$3 trillion a year by 2030.
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Anis Uzzaman, Forbes Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports
As the world deals with climate change and rising energy prices, green technology is more important than ever. Entrepreneurs stand to benefit by coming up with green technology business ideas to serve a growing market need.
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The Nature Conservancy Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Later this year, representatives from countries around world will meet at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to agree on a new global framework to guide biodiversity protection the rest of this decade—a “New Deal for Nature.”
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World Resources Institute Energy Solutions
The COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt concluded with a historic breakthrough to help vulnerable countries deal with losses and damages from the impacts of climate change.
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Larsen Mettler, Economic Impact Energy Solutions
Climate-tech startups raised US$53.7bn from venture capital and private equity in 2021, investment in ocean solutions lags far behind. But ocean solutions are climate solutions and should be recognized as such by climate-focused investors.
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