Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Blue economy: how a handful of companies reap most of the benefits in multi-billion ocean industries
Virdin, J. et al., The Conversation
To make these industries sustainable, we need to know more about the businesses which comprise them. So who’s driving this breakneck growth in the ocean economy?
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Sutherland, B. et al., The Conversation Plastics & Pollution
Of the hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste we produce each year, it’s estimated that around ten million tonnes enters the ocean.
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Plastic Pollution Coalition Plastics & Pollution
Jackie Nuñez, Founder of The Last Plastic Straw and Advocacy Program Manager at Plastic Pollution Coalition, was selected to embark on leg 15 of the eXXpedition, an all-women voyage to document plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.
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Rob Fletcher, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
While the insect farming industry is likely to "come of age" this decade, its overall impact on aquaculture may be more limited.
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University of Portsmouth, Phys Org Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports
Ships are the polluting 'elephants in the room' nobody is talking about despite a global drive to make oceans cleaner, according to new research.
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Jon Hurdle, Yale Environment 360 Energy Solutions
After years of false starts, offshore wind is poised to take off along the East Coast. Commitments by states to purchase renewable power, support from the Biden administration, and billions in new investment are all contributing to the emergence of this fledgling industry.
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Marianna Kantor, Forbes
The ocean, already the world's seventh-largest economy, is in trouble—and now comes the part where we realize we have the technology to do something about it.
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Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture
Freshwater fish are under threat, with as many as a third of global populations in danger of extinction, according to an assessment.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group
We need to support a new generation to aspire to ocean careers, says Francesca Santoro, ocean literacy specialist.
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Tom Ravenscroft, Dezeen Tourism
Foster + Partners aimed to design the hotel with a "light touch, non-damaging approach".
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Eco Wave Power (EWPG Holding AB), Cision Energy Solutions
Eco Wave Power (EWPG Holding AB) a Swedish-Israeli wave energy developer, won the public voting for the Global Innovation Award, in the "Life Under Water" category at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. The company's innovative wave-to-energy solution generates clean electricity from ocean and sea waves.
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H.J. Mai, NPR Energy Solutions
The United States on Friday officially rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change designed to limit global warming and avoid its potentially catastrophic impacts.
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Douglas McCauley, World Economic Forum
2050 is predicted to be a bleak milestone for the oceans - but it's not too late to avert disaster.
Here are 10 actions the world can take to strengthen and preserve our oceans for generations to come.
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Hanna Ziady, CNN Business Shipping & Ports
Maersk says it will launch the world's first carbon neutral cargo ship in 2023, as efforts to clean up one of the planet's worst polluting industries gain momentum.
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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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