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How ocean startups are making waves and money

Stella Liu, The Gigaton

The ocean covers 70% of Earth but doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves.

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Investing in the Future of Food: Artificial Intelligence in Aquaculture Production

Aly Rose, CREO Syndicate Fisheries & Aquaculture

The report provides a snapshot of the AI in the aquatech landscape, analyzes recent funding trends, and identifies potential solutions that will improve aquaculture production's financial viability and sustainability in the near and long term. 

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Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Investing in Food & Agriculture, Oceans, and Energy

Sanjeev Krishnan, Chuck Templeton, & Aaron Rudberg, S2G Ventures

Over the past 10 years, we’ve had the privilege of investing in over 100 companies, spanning the food & agriculture, energy, and oceans sectors.

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Marine carbon dioxide removal may be a future climate solution

David T Ho & Laurent Bopp, Sage Journals Plastics & Pollution

The ocean has absorbed 25% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and over 90% of excess heat, mitigating climate change but causing ocean acidification and marine ecosystem disruption.

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Watering Resilience: Case Studies for Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Action

Evan Jeffries & Richard Lee, WWF

This is the world’s watershed moment. The climate crisis is intensifying at terrifying speed, impacting societies, economies and ecosystems across the globe – mostly through water. Every day, the news is full of reports about yet another catastrophic flood, devastating drought, or record-breaking storm. 

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NOAA, White House, others release strategy for marine carbon dioxide removal research

National Science and Technology Council Plastics & Pollution

Today the Biden-Harris Administration and NOAA released the National Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Research Strategy to advance safe and effective research on the benefits, risks and tradeoffs of marine carbon dioxide removal.

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Mapping the global variation in the efficiency of ocean alkalinity enhancement for carbon dioxide removal

Mengyang Zhou, et al., Nature Plastics & Pollution

To limit global warming to below 2 °C by 2100, CO2 removal from the atmosphere will be necessary.

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Co-producing Sustainable Ocean Plans with Indigenous and traditional knowledge holders

High Level Panel for A Sustainable Ocean Economy

Launched at COP16 In Cali, Colombia in 2024, this Blue Paper, ‘Co-producing Sustainable Ocean Plans with Indigenous and traditional knowledge holders‘ explores how Indigenous and traditional knowledge can be integrated into policymaking processes to create Sustainable Ocean Plans.

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COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia

Aruna Chandrasekhar, et al., Carbon Brief

The COP16 biodiversity summit came to an abrupt halt after countries failed to reach consensus on the creation of a new fund during a mammoth 10-hour final plenary session.

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Unpacking Ocean Finance for Climate Action

Michai Robertson, et al., Ocean & Climate Platform, ORRAA

A Roadmap for the United Nations framework convention on climate change.

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Towards a sustainable ocean: where there’s a will, there’s a wave

Standard Chartered

The ocean is a vital tool in the fight against climate change, absorbing almost all the planet’s excess heat and a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions.

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Builders Vision’s Oceans Strategy

Dominic Hofstetter & Dr. Jess Daggers, TransCap Initiative

A Case Study of Systemic Investing.

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Tides of Transparency: A First Mapping of Industrial Ocean Data Sharing

Sive Einarsson, et al., HUB Ocean

A report by the Ocean Data Action Coalition, under the leadership of HUB Ocean and with input from the UN Ocean Decade Corporate Data Group.

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Early-stage outcomes and cost-effectiveness of implementing tourism-led coral propagation and outplanting in the Whitsundays (Great Barrier Reef)

Rachel Scott, et al., Frontiers Tourism

Implementation of coral restoration practices within reef management strategies is accelerating globally to support reef resilience and recovery.

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Ocean Panel Progress Report 2024

Micheline Khan, High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy

The second progress report from the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.

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Copernicus Ocean State Report 8

Copernicus

The OSR 8 is a flagship report, which provides a comprehensive overview of the current state, ongoing trends and natural variations of the ocean.

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Governing Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: Roles and Opportunities for the Private Sector

World Economic Forum

The entry into force of the “Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction” (BBNJ Agreement) marks a historic moment. This white paper presents practical insights into the agreement’s implications from companies operating in these areas.

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Impulse response functions as a framework for quantifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal

Elizabeth Yankovsky, et al., EGUSphere Energy Solutions Plastics & Pollution

Limiting global warming to 2 °C by the end of the century requires dramatically reducing CO2 emissions, and also implementing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies.

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Next steps for assessing ocean iron fertilization for marine carbon dioxide removal

Ken O. Buesseler, et al., Frontiers Plastics & Pollution

There are many potential approaches to marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR), of which ocean iron fertilization (OIF) has the longest history of study.

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Floating Offshore Wind

Aly Rose, David Siap, CREO Energy Solutions

The offshore wind resource is massive, 71 TW per the World Bank. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the global offshore wind resource is 18x the world’scurrent electricity demand and, of this, 80% is floatingand 20% is fixed.

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