Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Editorial, Nature Plastics & Pollution
How to make plastics less harmful is an urgent question in chemistry — and must be for policy, too.
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Ingrid Giskes, Ocean Conservancy Plastics & Pollution
Like all of the threats that face our ocean, ghost gear is a problem that does not recognize borders. A piece of fishing gear that snags on a ship in Canada can travel hundreds of miles before finding its way to a reef in Mexico, where it can “ghost fish” for decades on end.
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Edith Cecchini, Ocean Conservancy Plastics & Pollution
Four takeaways from Ocean Conservancy’s engagement with the Beyond the Bag Initiative.
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Institute of Food Technologies Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
Today, five of the most influential industry and multi-stakeholder platforms in the seafood sector have released a joint statement calling for action to combat the scourge of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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Jim Leape, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is putting fish stocks, human rights and marine ecosystems in peril.
Defeating IUU fishing can only be achieved if industry and governments join forces to ensure IUU fishers cannot find buyers or land their catch.
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Jack Denton, MarketWatch Energy Solutions
BP and Chevron have made a landmark expansion into geothermal energy on Tuesday, betting on a new technology that could prove to be the world’s first scalable clean energy derived from a constant source: the natural heat of the earth.
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ECO Magazine Shipping & Ports
Lucion Services, an international leader in environmental risk management services including hazardous material risk management for vessels, offshore platforms and ship recycling facilities through Lucion Marine, has announced the roll-out of fleet technology that will prevent nearly a thousand tonnes of CO2 from entering the earth’s atmosphere over the next five years.
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Ryan Ono, Ocean Conservancy
While the ocean is appreciated for many reasons such as its natural beauty, raw power, healing abilities and the cool animals that call it home, we often forget an additional impressive ocean attribute.
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Fabian Dawson, SeaWestNews Fisheries & Aquaculture
New high-tech vessel joins aquaculture armada in BC as the government is schooled on the role of innovation and technology in the Canadian aquaculture industry.
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Marimi Kishimoto, Nikkei Asia Fisheries & Aquaculture
Thai Union Group, the world's biggest canned tuna producer, has secured its first sustainability-linked loan of $400 million from a group of financial institutions, Nikkei Asia has learned. If the company achieves set targets such as strengthening the traceability of its seafood, the interest rate will be lowered by the lenders.
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Jason Holland, Global Aquaculture Alliance Fisheries & Aquaculture
Mariculture has a key role to play in getting the global ocean economy firmly on track, finds top-level study.
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Hanna Payne, Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a complex, systemic issue with impacts that resonate through global supply chains and can particularly harm those most vulnerable: the workers on fishing vessels.
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BBC News Plastics & Pollution
Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely.
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James Bray, World Economic Forum Shipping & Ports
Shipping accounts for 2-3% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, which puts it about on the same level as an entire country, such as Germany or Japan, as an emitter. The industry’s emissions are projected to rise by up to 250% in the next 30 years if no action is taken.
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The Maritime Executive Shipping & Ports
France’s Michelin Group joined a growing number of global brands committing to use a sail-powered carbon-free shipping alternative for its products.
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Ann Parson, Yale Environment 360 Plastics & Pollution
Roads in which waste plastic is melted down and mixed with paving materials are becoming more common around the world. Although for now they remain a niche technology, experts say the roads could become one of a diverse array of uses for discarded plastic.
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Maritime Executive Shipping & Ports
Two additional shipping companies, ONE and Eastern Pacific Shipping, recently completed successful trials of biofuels on their in-service ships.
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Peter Lacy, Wesley Spindler and John Dutton, World Economic Forum
The circular economy represents the means to save the planet, as well as an enormous market opportunity.
There is a mismatch between multinationals struggling to keep pace with circular innovation, and entrepreneurs who lack the resources to scale up.
The Circulars Accelerator is bringing the two parties together to advance the zero-waste agenda.
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Jason Holland, Seafood Source Fisheries & Aquaculture
A team of aquaculture researchers is exploring how sea cucumbers might be used to help reduce the environmental impact of fish farming, using techniques already being used in agriculture.
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E360 Digest, Yale School of the Environment Plastics & Pollution
Scientists have long warned that the world’s major rivers and estuaries are hotspots for plastic waste, as trash and microparticles wash down tributaries and congregate before entering oceans.
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