Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Daphna Nissenbaum, World Economic Forum Plastics & Pollution
About 8 billion tons of plastic has been produced globally since the 1950s, but only 10% has actually been recycled.
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Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch Plastics & Pollution
In the battle against plastic pollution, Spain has zeroed in on a new target — the plastic used to wrap fruits and vegetables in the supermarket.
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Taylor Clayton, Business & Industry / World Economic Forum Plastics & Pollution
Investment in infrastructure for plastic re-use, collection and recycling offers promising returns and a viable path to end plastic pollution.
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Emily Kelly, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
UpLink, a platform for scaling innovation, unveils its third cohort of ocean innovators.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Fisheries & Aquaculture
A guest blog from Carol Phua of WWF and Karl Deering of CARE on coral reefs & food security.
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Sonia Fernandez, World Economic Forum/ Futurity Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new review of the aquatic foods sector, or “blue” foods, shows how fisheries and aquaculture can play a greater role in delivering nutrition and improving food systems around the world.
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Dave Little & Richard Newton, The Conversation Fisheries & Aquaculture
If you want to reduce your personal impact on the environment, cutting back on eating animal products is one of the simplest things you can do. But becoming vegan and eating only plants is unlikely to be an appropriate solution for everyone in the world.
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Julia Eskins, Bloomberg Tourism
The search giant’s new tools for finding sustainable hotels is one of several ways consumers can cut through all the industry greenwashing.
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Whitney Johnston, World Economic Forum Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
As demand grows for blue carbon credits, the businesses driving this growth have a responsibility to ensure returns are net positive for nature and people.
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Investable Oceans Fisheries & Aquaculture
We welcomed manta researcher Anna Knochel for a conversation with Investable Oceans’ Morgan Bennett-Smith on why these amazing creatures matter, how they’re researched, and what’s in store for the future.
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Fisheries & Aquaculture
Nutrition researchers have long touted the health benefits of fish such as salmon, cod, and herring. But the world’s waterways, from the depths of the oceans to the cutbanks of rivers to tropical reefs, offer up an incredibly diverse bounty of food sources that people around the world depend on.
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Simon Bullock, The Conversation Shipping & Ports
To keep below the threshold of 1.5 degrees °C of warming – the goal of the Paris climate agreement – immediate reductions in carbon emissions are needed.
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Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch Plastics & Pollution
Is it better for your health and the environment to drink water from a plastic bottle or from a tap?
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Farrelly, T. et al., World Economic Forum Plastics & Pollution
After banning plastic bags last year, New Zealand now proposes to regulate single-use plastic packaging and to ban various hard-to-recycle plastics and single-use plastic items.
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World Economic Forum Shipping & Ports
A speaker blog for World Ocean Summit Asia-Pacific by Sabrina Chao, president of BIMCO.
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We analysed data from 29,798 clean-ups around the world to uncover some of the worst litter hotspots
Roman, L. et al., The Conversation Plastics & Pollution
Coastal litter is a big environmental problem. But how does this litter differ around the world, and why? In the first global analysis of its kind, we set out to answer those questions using data collected by thousands of citizen scientists.
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Megan Howell, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
The plant-based seafood segment is moving far beyond soy and corn-based substitutions and can now offer seafood lovers the same taste and experience as the "real thing", according to Monica Talbert, CEO of the Plant-Based Seafood Co*.
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Rob Fletcher & Megan Howell, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Up to 10 percent of the global salmon supply could be produced in offshore systems by the end of the decade, according to a new report published by Rabobank today.
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Dan Crockett, Blue Marine Foundation Energy Solutions
In June this year, immediately ahead of the G7, Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) held a one-day Blue Carbon Conference.
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Julia Conley, Common Dreams
A vote overwhelmingly in favor of placing a moratorium on deep sea mineral mining at a global biodiversity summit this week has put urgent pressure on the International Seabed Authority to strictly regulate the practice.
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