Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
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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Gabriel Leigh, Bloomberg Green Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Hop on a ferry in Norway and it’s increasingly likely that the rumble of a diesel engine will have been replaced by the quiet hum of an electric motor.
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Lauren Uppink, World Economic Forum Energy Solutions Tourism
The World Economic Forum’s Clean Skies for Tomorrow initiative created a new certificate system to enable customers to take ownership of their emissions reduction goals.
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Shravan Bhat & James Mitchell, RMI Shipping & Ports
Staff at RMI’s Center for Climate-Aligned Finance (the Center) analyzed how financial institutions are helping shape the shipping sector’s decarbonization journey through the Poseidon Principles.
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Sandra Laville, The Guardian Plastics & Pollution
Scientists say agreement must cover extraction of raw materials and pollution that blights seas and land.
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Douglas Broom, World Economic Forum Plastics & Pollution
How can we stop our waste ending up in landfill or even the ocean? The answer is to match material with the people who can reuse it.
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Daniel Gleeson, International Mining Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Anglo American says it has successfully trialled the use of sustainable biofuel to power a chartered capesize ship during a voyage from Singapore to South Africa.
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Clayton Starr, The Liquid Grid
In this interview, Mark Huang, one of the co-founders of SeaAhead, answers questions about their bluetech platform, startups, investing, and growing the blue economy.
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Dennis Mombauer, Mongabay
Authorities in Sri Lanka have called for a renewed focus on conserving the island’s rich coastal ecosystems, identifying the “blue economy” as key to the nation’s sustainable development.
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Johnny Wood, World Economic Forum Plastics & Pollution
River clean-ups help reduce the volume of plastic waste that reaches our oceans.
Innovative ideas and science are helping community leaders and policymakers tackle the plastic-waste problem.
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World Economic Forum Tourism
The World Ocean Summit heard about the sector’s pathways towards environmental sustainability.
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Janelle Nanos, Boston Globe Fisheries & Aquaculture
With warming oceans threatening lobstering, kelp farming could become a major industry.
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Sean Fleming, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
This group of Pacific island nations banded together to fight back and win – for themselves and for fish stocks.
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