Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Bill David Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Ammonia can be burnt for energy like fossil fuels but with no carbon emissions.
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Charlotte Edmond, World Economic Forum Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Spiky, voracious and multiplying at an alarming rate, sea urchins are destroying marine ecosystems around the world. The solution? Eat them, according to one company.
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James Richen, Responsible Investor Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
James Richens, editor of The Economist Group’s World Ocean Initiative, takes stock of Responsible Investor’s survey of investment risks and opportunities in the blue economy.
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Anders Holst Nymark Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Collaboration between governments and industry is crucial to make new green technologies competitive alternatives to fossil fuels.
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Johannah Christensen Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Emissions from shipping could grow by 250% by 2050 if no action is taken. Halving shipping’s emissions by 2050 could require $1.2 trillion in investment. But the scale of this challenge could be big enough to spur decarbonization across other sectors, too.
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Martin Koehring, The Economist Group- World Ocean Initiative Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports
Safeguarding and harnessing the ocean’s ability to provide for people and the planet is crucial for sustainable development, says Martin Koehring, head of the World Ocean Initiative.
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CNBC Energy Solutions
Piva, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, announced on Wednesday that it raised $250 million for its first fund, which will focus on the next era of energy, industry and materials.Read more → (4 minute read)
Olivia Rosane Energy Solutions
We can save hundreds of millions of people from poverty by 2050 by limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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WM. Robert Irvin Energy Solutions
As society grapples with climate change and the challenge of decarbonizing the national energy grid, proponents increasingly hold up hydropower as an indispensable part of the solution, touting it as “clean, green energy.”Read more → (19 minute read)
Dan Jacobson Energy Solutions
California needs to find a way to harness the wind off its coast to power an electric grid that will rely more than ever on clean, renewable energy.Read more → (3 minute read)
World Ocean Initiative Energy Solutions
Scaling up wave-energy generation to tackle climate change needs to start with smaller projects in a lower-risk environment, say expertsRead more → (13 minute read)
Philip Warburg, Yale Climate Connections Energy Solutions
Advances in technology, improved economics, and broad political support are making wind power a formidable twenty-first century energy resource. Top-ranking Denmark draws 41% of its electricity from wind; Ireland follows with 28%; the European Union as a whole gets 14% of its power from wind.
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Brad Plumer Energy Solutions
Climate change is heating the oceans and altering their chemistry so dramatically that it is threatening seafood supplies, fueling cyclones and floods and posing profound risks to the hundreds of millions of people living along the coasts.
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Mareesa Nicosia Energy Solutions
Tech Titans’ Philanthropy Puts Oceans Front and Center
While the ocean covers more than 70% of the earth's surface, the precious global resource receives just a fraction of all philanthropic funding—less than 1% since 2009, according to FundingtheOcean.org, an effort by the nonprofit Foundation Center to track ocean conservation philanthropy.
Titans of the technology and finance sectors, however, are increasingly committing resources to help solve the biggest problems facing our oceans, include warming temperatures, overfishing, and ocean acidification from increased carbon emissions.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Louise Elizabeth Maher-Johnson, Scientific American Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
We can sequester carbon and improve our nutrition through regenerative farming of land and sea.
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Jurriaan Kamp, President & Editor in Chief of the Optimist Daily Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Gas is the future. That may sound counterintuitive in an emerging world of renewable energy where new solar power records are set on a monthly basis. However, for Joost Wouters, Dutch engineer and entrepreneur at Inrada Group, there’s no doubt: in the future, we will continue to use gas-fired stoves to cook our meals and warm our homes with gas-burning heating systems. Gas? Yes, biogas from seaweed.Read more → (6 minute read)
Simon Evans, Carbon Brief Energy Solutions
Building solar, wind or nuclear plants creates an insignificant carbon footprint compared with savings from avoiding fossil fuels, a new study suggests.
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Kalila Morsink, Smithsonian Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
That’s right—more than half of the oxygen you breathe comes from marine photosynthesizers, like phytoplankton and seaweed.
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