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Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Marine energy is getting a boost in the fight against climate change.
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A group of former Google, SolarCity and Tesla executives in April snagged $20 million in what is being called the largest ocean-based carbon removal investment to date.
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Zeke Reed, KCRWPart incubator, part research facility, and part educational institution, AltaSea supports scientists, entrepreneurs, and students working to make Los Angeles a global hub for the so-called “blue economy” — the aquatic equivalent of the sustainable green economy on land.
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Doug Helton, Office of Response and Restoration at NOAAThe vast majority of ships use petroleum oil, although there is an increasing use of alternative fuels.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist GroupExperts at the 10th annual World Ocean Summit highlighted how blue-energy projects can be designed to support conservation, aquaculture and more.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist GroupExperts at the 10th annual World Ocean Summit stressed the importance of co-creating solutions.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist GroupMangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are powerful nature-based net-zero solutions.
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Institute for Sustainable Investing, Morgan StanleyTackling climate change, protecting biodiversity and fostering inclusive economic growth will require more than $3 trillion of investments in the world’s oceans in the coming decades.
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Dan Primack, AxiosCarbonwave, a Boston-based startup that "upcycles" Sargassum seaweed into biomaterials, raised $5 million in venture capital funding led by an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers.
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Global investments in energy transition technologies must more than quadruple annually to stay in line with commitments made under the Paris climate accord, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said on Tuesday.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist GroupSpeakers at the 10th annual World Ocean Summit said the industry wants to decarbonise, but a lack of regulatory and market drivers is getting in the way.
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The U.S. Energy Department said Wednesday it has a new strategy to meet the goal of vastly expanding offshore wind energy to address climate change.
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The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has launched a new competition for developers investigating novel technologies for harnessing and converting the power of ocean waves into usable types of energy.
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President Joe Biden released a first-of-its-kind U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan on Tuesday, which he said will “harness the tremendous power of the ocean to help in our fight against the climate crisis.”
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The latest report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which lays out the current and growing impacts of the global climate crisis, is “devastating and harrowing—and yet it holds out hope,” said Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber.
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The Nature Conservancy prepared this guide to help you understand what these climate reports are, what their findings mean for our world and what we can do.
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But only now is it beginning to be studied properly.
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The Fish SiteThe Malaysian state of Sarawak is set to host Chitose Carbon Capture Central (C4), a firm that’s said to be the world’s largest mass microalgae biomass production facility, in April 2023.
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A cutting-edge clean energy project to use ocean waves to power a coastal First Nation’s return to its traditional territory on Vancouver Island’s wild west coast just got a surge in funding.
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At the 2023 Our Ocean Conference in Panama, the U.S. delegation, headed by Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, worked with allies and partners to tackle the climate crisis, combat marine pollution, support sustainable fisheries, establish effective marine protected areas, promote a sustainable blue economy, and advance maritime security.
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