Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
California is planning floating wind farms offshore to boost its power supply – here’s how they work
Matthew Lackner, The Conversation Energy Solutions
Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy.
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Innovation News Network Fisheries & Aquaculture
Courtney Knupp of the U.S. Soybean Export Council speaks to Innovation News Network about how U.S. Soy can breathe new life into the aquaculture industry, improve sustainability, and enable growth.
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Bill Gates Energy Solutions Tourism
Introducing a new way to invest in clean energy innovation.
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Dr. Wilfried Rickels & Prof Martin Quaas, Carbon Brief
Carbon “sinks”, such as forests or the ocean, play a crucial role in absorbing atmospheric CO2 and thereby reducing the damages caused by climate change and the emissions that drive it.
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Luiz Avelar, World Economic Forum Energy Solutions
After setting climate targets, countries and companies will need to quantify, reduce and monitor their emissions.
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Prof C Greg Lutz, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture is used to help enhance wild stocks of nearly 200 aquatic species around the world, but these programmes have had mixed results.
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The Economist, World Ocean Initiative Plastics & Pollution
There is significant value to extract from plastic waste. Scaling up advanced chemical recycling technologies could help close the loop and create a circular system for plastic waste that is currently leaking into the ocean.
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Christopher Ruf, The Conversation Plastics & Pollution
To understand how microplastic pollution is affecting the ocean, scientists need to know how much is there and where it is accumulating.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new project that is creating a new range of snacks made from and with kelp has reported good progress, although there are still some hurdles to overcome before seaweed is more widely consumed in the West.
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Rob Fletcher, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
According to Jeff Cheng, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) don’t need to be used for high value species or purely by large corporations, but are well within the grasp of relatively small aquaculture players, producing a wide range of species.
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Douglas Broom, World Economic Forum Energy Solutions
If electric cars are the future, why does that future seem to be such a long time coming?
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Maha Eltobgy et al., World Economic Forum
By supporting the World Economic Forum’s Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics, investors can help progress towards better ESG reporting worldwide.
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Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian Energy Solutions
The world’s wind and solar energy capacity grew at a record rate last year while the oil industry recorded its steepest slump in demand since the second world war, according to BP.
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World Ocean Initiative
The World Ocean Summit discussed the enabling environment for financial-sector participation in ocean restoration.
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Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Mongabay Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new report shows that the world’s top fishing nations are using subsidies worth billions of dollars to exploit the high seas and the waters of other nations, including some of the world’s least-developed countries.
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Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation News Energy Solutions
If funded, about 13,000 renewable energy projects proposed in nearly 50 countries could slash emissions and create work, researchers find.
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Carlie Wiener, et al., World Economic Forum
To connect the ocean to people, we need to connect culture to the ocean.
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UNEP FI Energy Solutions
The ocean is not just a victim of climate change, it is also a source of solutions.
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Lucy Sherriff, The Washington Post Fisheries & Aquaculture
The population of kelp forests, which help clean the air, has fallen dramatically. That has environmentalists worried.
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Helen Scales, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture
From giant clams to zebra shark, marine biologists want to replace lost and vanishing species at sea but face unique obstacles – not least rampant overfishing
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