Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Felicia Jackson, Forbes Fisheries & Aquaculture
Investors can’t manage what they can’t measure and in the $40 billion global tuna industry, they’re largely flying blind.
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Danielle Rossingh, Impact Investor Plastics & Pollution
Six public development banks from Europe and Asia launched the Clean Oceans Initiative 2.0 as the third United Nations Ocean Conference kicked off this week.
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Krystle Higgins, Impact Investor
The fund will invest in startups working to support the regeneration of ocean biodiversity and has secured backing from the European Investment Fund and a range of institutional investors.
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Gary Howard, Seatrade Maritime News Shipping & Ports
More owners and operators prioritising decarbonisation, setting goals, implementing strategies, and using biofuels, GCMD report finds.
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Jonathan Kelsey & Karen Sack, BusinessGreen
Ocean conservation is not a cost - is a hedge against global volatility and an investment in prosperity, write Bloomberg Ocean Fund's Jonathan Kelsey, and Karen Sack from the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance.
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Alexandra Talty, The Guardian
Investment is pouring into companies promising to geoengineer a rapid change in the pH of our waters – but critics are concerned at the speed at which unproven methods are being adopted.
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The Guardian
In seas around the world pH levels are falling – and scientists are increasingly frustrated that the problem is not being taken seriously enough.
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High Seas Alliance
Nice, 9 June 2025, Today at the 3rd UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France, High Seas Alliance congratulates progress on the historic number of ratifications for the High Seas Treaty that have just been deposited, bringing the Treaty much closer to the critical threshold of 60 ratifications needed for its entry into force.
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Simon Mundy, Financial Times
A guide to the asset class slowly gaining favour among institutions.
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Rob Kaplan, Forbes Plastics & Pollution
The world is finally catching up to a simple fact: you cannot solve the ocean plastics crisis in the ocean alone. You need to solve it on land too.
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Michael Holder, BusinessGreen
Prince William's climate and environmental solutions prize teams up with investors to ramp up support for ocean-focused innovations.
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Tom Pickerell, World Resources Institute
It’s the ocean’s criticality that brings world leaders together for the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France from June 9th-13th.
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Opinion Contributor, Bangor Daily News
From Eastport to Biddeford, a new kind of farming is transforming Maine’s working waterfronts.
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UN Global Compact/PR Newswire
Linking ocean health to prosperity, this new framework sets guidance to align financial flows and business practices with the transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy worth $US 5.5 trillion by 2050.
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Eric Priante Martin, TradeWinds News Shipping & Ports
Decarbonisation tech needs fit-for-purpose capital, S2G leader says.
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Gabriella Hernandez, Startups Magazine
Growing up on a small Caribbean island, I developed a great appreciation for the ocean and our marine environment.
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Jennifer Marston, AFN Fisheries & Aquaculture
The world’s largest salmon producers must adjust feed practices to reduce dependence on wild-caught fish, or expose themselves and their investors to multiple risks, says investor network FAIRR’s latest report.
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Peter Thomson, Together For The Ocean
Ambassador Peter Thomson, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, issues a clear message ahead of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference: we must unite, act fast, and deliver on 30x30 – before it’s too late.
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Karolina Adamkiewicz, Impact Investor
Ocean Panel’s paper on ocean employment highlights the challenges and opportunities for employment and economic growth in the transition to a sustainable blue economy.
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Steven Fox, Propeller Energy Solutions
When most people think of energy from the ocean, four primary sources typically come to mind: offshore wind, offshore oil and gas, wave, and tidal power.
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