Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Stockholm Resilience Center
The 100 largest companies that operate within eight ocean industries took an estimated 60% of all revenues. The next step will be to explore their environmental footprint.
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Jim Palardy, The PEW Charitable Trusts
Deep-sea mining, coastal wetland protection, and wildlife DNA analysis among issues likely to have global impact.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Shipping & Ports
Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for carbon-neutral shipping? Challenge winner Casimir Morobé of Toqua tells us how winning has impacted his start-up.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Indonesian aquatech start-up eFishery* today announced that it has successfully closed a US$90 million Series C funding round, making it the largest fundraise by an aquaculture technology startup in the world.
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Arlie McCarthy, The Conversation Shipping & Ports
The best way to protect against this is to prevent any non-native species arriving in the first place.
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Russell Thomas, The Guardian Plastics & Pollution
From ‘bubble barriers’ to floating drones, a host of new projects aim to stop plastic pollution before it ever reaches the ocean.
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Oliver Milman, The Guardian
Ocean heating driven by human-caused climate crisis, scientists say, in sixth consecutive year record has been broken.
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Joel Makower, GreenBiz Plastics & Pollution
It wasn’t long ago that the world seemed wrapped up in plastic: outrage over plastic drinking straws and bags, mostly, but also the entire plastics and packaging industries.
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Bonnie Waycott, Global Seafood Alliance Fisheries & Aquaculture
Projects in Denmark and England focus on education and building climate-positive models.
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Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Mongabay Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new report using core samples taken from the seabed has determined that the Humboldt Current system off the coast of Peru was home to smaller fish during the last interglacial period, 130,000 years ago.
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Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch Fisheries & Aquaculture
Seaweed, a term for the diverse group of large, nonflowering marine organisms known as algae, has a wide range of uses, from food and fertilizer to fuel.
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Philipp Rickenbacher, World Economic Forum
Transparency, choice and trust are needed to unlock the power of private investors in shaping sustainability.
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Royce Kurmelovs, The Guardian Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Port of Newcastle says move is part of plan to decarbonise the business by 2040 and ‘we don’t really have a choice’.
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Saleem Mustafa, World Economic Forum
Saving the ocean will require a firm commitment from maritime countries that deploys a mix of several approaches.
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Mogens L. Mathiesen, World Economic Forum
With collaborative action and data sharing the industry has an opportunity to build a sustainable blue economy.
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Damian Carrington, The Guardian Plastics & Pollution
New products range from washing machine filters and balls to fabrics made from kelp and orange peel.
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Marine Administration, US Department of Transportation Shipping & Ports
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 PIDP includes priorities related to job creation, climate change, and environmental justice impacts.
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Paul Hickin and Surabhi Sahu, S&P Global Shipping & Ports
Shipping's ability to meet decarbonization targets seem both extremely easy and very tough.
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Alice Chen, The Hill Times
There's 'huge potential' for the country to take advantage of the economy driven by ocean resources, says Independent Senator Rosa Galvez, but this comes with 'a lot of responsibility' for the government.
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Kerry Walker, National Geographic Tourism
With the Arctic warming three times faster than the rest of the planet, can travel to the region ever be sustainable? Select tours to Svalbard suggest small group trips may be a force for good.
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