Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
• Toby Hill, Business Green • Energy Solutions
European energy giant unveils investment strategy that will see it invest €160bn directly in green infrastructure, while leveraging a further €30bn from other parties.
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• Blue Power Connectors Team, World Ocean Initiative • Energy Solutions
A new competition seeks new concepts to integrate wave energy with autonomous underwater vehicles.
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• Allen Kim, CNN • Energy Solutions
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Monday that he will give $791 million in grants as part of his Bezos Earth Fund to 16 organizations that are working to protect the environment.
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• Michael Holder, Business Green • Energy Solutions
UK water companies have drawn up a joint roadmap to rapidly decarbonise the industry within a decade, today unveiling a multi-billion pound plan to harness green gas, renewable power, electric vehicles, and nature-based climate solutions to deliver net zero emissions across the entire sector by 2030.
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• Cecilia Keating, Business Green • Energy Solutions
The world's largest offshore floating wind project marked a major milestone this week, after MHI Vestas announced it had successfully installed one of the project's 9.5MW turbines on its floating foundation.
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• Toby Hill, Business Green • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture
Work to scale-up production of a protein animal feed aimed at transforming the aquaculture industry has received a boost this week, with UK biotech company Deep Branch having secured €2.5m funding from the Europe Innovation Council (EIC).
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• World Ocean Initiative • Energy Solutions
The EU is already a leader in tidal, wave and offshore wind energy. And now green hydrogen offers huge potential to accelerate the ocean energy opportunity.
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• ecoSPEARS • Energy Solutions • Plastics & Pollution
In the selection process, Katapult Ocean screened and interviewed a pipeline with more than 1,500 startups. Since 2018, Katapult Ocean has made 32 investments in exciting ocean impact companies from all over the world (17 countries and four continents). "Few options exist when it comes to eliminating persistent and emerging contaminants in soil, sediment, and oil - a problem which has grown with industry globally. ecoSPEARS is well-positioned to become the benchmark cleantech company for green remediation," said Jonas Skattum Svegaarden, CEO of Katapult Ocean.
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• Joseph Polidoro, Science News • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture
In the world’s largest seagrass restoration project, scientists have observed an ecosystem from birth to full flowering.
As part of a 20-plus-years project, researchers and volunteers spread more than 70 million eelgrass seeds over plots covering more than 200 hectares, just beyond the wide expanses of salt marsh off the southern end of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
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• Sophie Ryan, World Ocean Initiative • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture
As one of the most resource-efficient protein production sectors and one of the most nutritious foods available, farmed fish has the potential to meet growing demand for food in a way that serves people and protects the planet. But can it live up to the promise, asks Sophie Ryan, chief executive officer of the Global Salmon Initiative.
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• Marine Technology News • Energy Solutions
Controls technology company Proserv Controls has teamed up with power system monitoring firm Synaptec to develop a cable monitoring system for offshore wind farms.
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• Toby Hill, Business Green • Energy Solutions
Investment bank Macquarie and German tech giant Siemens have teamed up to launch a new flexible energy joint venture, Calibrant Energy, in a bid to offer comprehensive energy-as-a-service (EaaS) solutions for corporate and industrial clients as well as municipalities, universities, schools and hospitals.
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• Toby Hill, Business Green • Energy Solutions
A UK firm pioneering carbon capture storage and utilisation (CCUS) technology is set to deploy its equipment for the first time at a Dutch power plant that generates energy from waste, it announced this week.
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• World Economic Forum • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports
The ocean economy is one that has been overlooked by COVID-19 stimulus packages to date, write World Resources Institute experts. However, supporting the ocean economy has significant benefits, with every $1 invested returning $5.
Here are 5 ocean priorities can help its economic output and support the wider economy.
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• Mark Harris • Energy Solutions
Should billionaires be able to start tinkering with the climate without asking the rest of us?
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• WORLD OCEAN INITIATIVE • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism
The latest World Ocean Initiative webinar highlights recent developments in promoting ocean science, developing technological innovations and boosting financing instruments.
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• Adrienne Murray • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture
Seaweed production has boomed. Between 2005 and 2015 volumes doubled, surpassing 30 million tonnes annually, reports the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
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• Olivia Rosane • Energy Solutions
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a cheap, efficient way to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuel, potentially reducing the amount of new carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere.
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• World Ocean Initiative • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports
A new report commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy outlines the four investments with the biggest potential to secure ocean health and wealth.
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• Brad Plumer • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Tourism
As climate change raises sea levels, storm surges and high tides will push farther inland, a team of researchers says.
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