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United Nations Environment Programme Plastics & Pollution
From Pollution to Solution: A global assessment of marine litter and plastic pollution reveals the impact of marine litter and plastic pollution in the environment and their effects on the health of ecosystems, wildlife and humans.
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Latham & Watkins
This briefing pulls together the strands of regulation emerging across the US, the EU, the UK, and Asia to help global asset managers understand the requirements across jurisdictions. It also looks at the potential for global disclosure standards to be developed in this area.
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Joshi, S. et al., Nature Energy Solutions
Rooftop solar photovoltaics currently account for 40% of the global solar photovoltaics installed capacity and one-fourth of the total renewable capacity additions in 2018. Yet, only limited information is available on its global potential and associated costs at a high spatiotemporal resolution.
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Tsiaras, K., et al., Frontiers in Marine Science Plastics & Pollution
The Mediterranean is considered a hot-spot for plastic pollution, due to its semi-enclosed nature and heavily populated coastal areas.
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OECD
ESG Investing and Climate Transition highlights the main findings from recent OECD research on ESG rating and investing.
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Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN)
The flagship product of the GCRMN is the Status of Coral Reefs of the World report that describes the status and trends of coral reefs worldwide. This sixth edition of the GCRMN Status of Coral Reefs of the World report is the first since 2008, and the first based on the quantitative analysis of a global dataset compiled from raw monitoring data contributed by more than 300 members of the network.
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Meys, R. et al., Science Plastics & Pollution
The great majority of plastics in current use are sourced from fossil fuels, with additional fossil fuels combusted to power their manufacture. Substantial research is focused on finding more sustainable building blocks for next-generation polymers.
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Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only barely beginning to understand by Jonathan Watts, global environment editor.
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Ocean Stewardship Coalition, UN Global Compact Fisheries & Aquaculture
The purpose of this report is to position seaweed, or marine macroalgae, as a significant nature-based climate solution with large scaling potential that can directly sequester carbon and indirectly displace greenhouse gas emissions in numerous ways, with clear economic and ecological co-benefits that make it a form of “charismatic carbon” and a holistic nature-based climate solution.
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Short, R.E. et al., Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture
Concerns that the global food system is failing to deliver safe, nutritious, sustainable and equitable diets have intensified over the past decade, leading to calls for food system transformation.
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Golden, C.D. et al,, Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture
Despite contributing to healthy diets for billions of people, aquatic foods are often undervalued as a nutritional solution because their diversity is often reduced to the protein and energy value of a single food type (‘seafood’ or ‘fish’).
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Dr. Melissa Walsh, Dr. Rhona Barr, and Camilla Sundberg, Marine Conservation Finance
Finance is critical to the long-term success of MPAs, yet finance remains fragmented and limited.
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Richa Syal, Environmental Reporting Collective Fisheries & Aquaculture
Conservationists are sounding the alarm over the international race to exploit the Antarctic's krill swarms.
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Willem van der Pijl, Aqua-Spark Fisheries & Aquaculture
We at Aqua-Spark believe that aquaculture production will have to accelerate and have identified tilapia to be the fish to do so: it’s scalable and it’s healthy, sustainable, and affordable.
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Blythe, J. et al., British Ecological Society
Research is demonstrating the potential of virtual reality to stimulate users’ capacity to imagine and pursue more sustainable futures and to encourage pro-environmental behaviour.
Building on this work, we asked whether experiencing the oceans in a virtual reality environment could make someone care about them and take action?
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Sustainable Use, Mariculture and Conservation of Giant Clams in the Marine Regulated Fishing Area of Reao Atoll, Tuamotu.
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Alexandra Talty, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture
Kelp can clean New York’s polluted waters, tackle climate change and is sustainable – but growers need a law change first.
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Howells, E.J. et al., Science Advances Fisheries & Aquaculture
Reef-building corals thriving in extreme thermal environments may provide genetic variation that can assist the evolution of populations to rapid climate warming. However, the feasibility and scale of genetic improvements remain untested despite ongoing population declines from recurrent thermal stress events.
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Dee Hon, BC Business Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
But our growing ocean economy faces stiff competition from overseas.
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John Virdin, Our Shared Seas
The role of “ocean aid” in achieving global targets for ocean conservation and sustainable use by 2030.
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