Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
UN Environment Programme Plastics & Pollution
Nations commit to develop a legally binding agreement.
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Stacy Baez, The Pew Charitable Trusts Fisheries & Aquaculture
Mapping and carbon assessment project will provide the first-ever field validated map and estimate the amount of carbon held within the country’s seagrass meadows.
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Patricia Scotland, World Ocean Initiative
Ocean action deserves deep pockets, says World Ocean Summit speaker the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, secretary-general of the Commonwealth.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Cell-cultured salmon pioneer Wildtype has attracted investment from some big names in the food and entertainment industry as it completes is $100 million series B funding round.
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Ching-Piao Tsai, World Ocean Initiative
A speaker blog from World Ocean Summit Asia-Pacific speaker Ching-Piao Tsai.
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Holly Binns & Justin Grubich, The Pew Charitable Trusts Fisheries & Aquaculture
Research shows healthy areas that will benefit manatees and other wildlife, coastal economies, and the new Nature Coast Aquatic Preserve.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group
From blue events to highly anticipated treaties, this year the ocean takes centre stage.
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Jeremy Miller for The Sierra Club Plastics & Pollution
According to an estimate from the World Economic Forum, the number of microplastics that find their way to the ocean every year by way of paint flaking from steel surfaces is equivalent to the plastic of 150 to 225 billion empty plastic bottles.
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OECD Plastics & Pollution
The world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, with the bulk of it ending up in landfill, incinerated or leaking into the environment, and only 9% successfully recycled, according to a new OECD report.
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Douglas Broom, World Economic Forum Plastics & Pollution
Ocean plastic pollution is set to grow fourfold by 2050, says a new report. And there may be 50 times more microplastics in the sea by 2100.
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Megan Howell, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Despite only representing about 1 percent of global seaweed cultivation volumes, green macroalgae (Chlorophyta) could play a decisive role in the commercial seaweed sector as it expands and diversifies.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aqua-Spark’s next Aqua Insights Report, expected to run in April 2022, will explore the digital aquatech landscape from farm and supply chain tech to solutions for pond-based and cage farming operations.
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Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch Plastics & Pollution
A pipeline leak off the coast of Wales spilled around 500 barrels of oil into the Irish Sea on Monday on the anniversary of one of the worst ecological disasters in Welsh history.
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Reuters/CNN Business
Financial institutions channeled more than $1.5 trillion into the coal industry in loans and underwriting from January 2019 to November 2021, even though many have made net-zero pledges, a report by a group of 28 non-government organizations showed.
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NOAA
The United States is expected to experience as much sea level rise by the year 2050 as it witnessed in the previous hundred years.
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Tom Cameron, The Conversation Fisheries & Aquaculture
Cod “supergenes” have shed light on how they respond to overfishing, and these supergenes could make them more resilient to other environmental changes.
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Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Solutions
68 Selectees Across 22 States Will Drive the Development and Commercial Deployment of Advanced Technologies for Fusion Energy, Electric Vehicles, Offshore Wind and More.
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Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Echandi & Frances Seymour, WEF
The regulatory and business environment needs to change to enable nature-positive opportunities to deliver a competitive financial return.
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Anna Turns, The Guardian Plastics & Pollution
First it was PCBs, now it’s PFAS – harmful toxic pollutants that do not biodegrade are affecting ecosystems around the globe.
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