Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
The Maritime Executive Shipping & Ports
German energy company Uniper announced that it is launching a program designed to scale up green methanol positioning it as a sustainable and carbon-neutral marine fuel.
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Investors' Corner, BNP Paribas Asset Management
Are whales man’s greatest ally as rising temperatures pose unprecedented threats to the planet? Trees are often championed in the fight against global warming: Photosynthesis captures significant quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2). However, the carbon footprint of cetaceans far exceeds that of forests.
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Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Shipping & Ports
Shipping industry representatives, backed by several countries, have submitted a proposal to the UN to charge a climate-related levy on fossil fuels used by international shipping for the first time.
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Paul J B Hart, The Conversation Fisheries & Aquaculture
Cornish pilchard fishers are under constant pressure to make a catch and earn money. They use great skill aided by electronic fish-finding equipment to find and capture their prey. But if they are unsuccessful, it’s hard for them to cover the costs of the fishing trip or even pay wages to the crew.
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Senator Ben Allen, California Plastics & Pollution
While celebrating advocacy for protection of natural resources during Ocean Day at the State Capitol, legislators announced a package of bills to address the mounting waste crisis affecting California’s coastline, landfills, and ratepayers.
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Shakuntala Thilsted, World Fish Center Fisheries & Aquaculture
WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health, Aquatic Food Systems, and Vice Chair of the 2021 UN Food System Summit Action Track 4: Advance Equitable Livelihoods, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, shares her experience developing nutrition-sensitive innovations that are transforming women’s lives.
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Scientific American Custom Media
Technological innovation and a deep conservation ethic have made Canada a destination for ocean industry leaders.
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Laura Rose, Global Aquaculture Alliance Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Oceanography study explores the relationships between offshore wind energy and fisheries industries, suggests inclusive approaches.
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The Economist Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Along with two other kinds of coastal ecosystem—mangrove swamps and tidal marshes—seagrass meadows are particularly good at taking carbon dioxide from the air and converting it into plant matter.
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Mining Technology
Canadian battery metals firm DeepGreen Metals has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corporation (SOAC) to go public.
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Tiffany Duong, EcoWatch
While traditional investment in the ocean technology sector has been tentative, growth in Israeli maritime innovations has been exponential in the last few years, and environmental concern has come to the forefront.
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The Nature Conservancy
TNC’s Blue Bonds for Conservation model helps governments unlock funding for conservation—and could benefit millions of people in coastal regions.
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Simon Cripps, Mongabay Fisheries & Aquaculture
Securing such a vast area requires new cutting-edge technology to monitor illegal activities and movements of species.
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Rebecca Choong Wilkins and Todd Gillespie, Bloomberg Green
Few places in the world have greater need for a new type of sustainable debt to fund water projects and protect the oceans than Asia, with its more than 100,000 kilometers of coastline.
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Chermaine Lee, BBC Energy Solutions Plastics & Pollution
From lower carbon emissions to fewer potholes, there are a number of benefits to building a layer of plastic into roads.
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Graham Readfearn, The Guardian
Three of Australia’s world heritage-listed marine sites have more than 2bn tonnes of carbon dioxide locked away in their vast seagrass meadows, coastal mangroves and tidal marshes, according to a new report from a UN agency.
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Sarah Bobbe, Ocean Conservancy Plastics & Pollution
Even the remote Arctic marine ecosystem has a plastics problem.
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Blue economy: how a handful of companies reap most of the benefits in multi-billion ocean industries
Virdin, J. et al., The Conversation
To make these industries sustainable, we need to know more about the businesses which comprise them. So who’s driving this breakneck growth in the ocean economy?
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Sutherland, B. et al., The Conversation Plastics & Pollution
Of the hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste we produce each year, it’s estimated that around ten million tonnes enters the ocean.
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Plastic Pollution Coalition Plastics & Pollution
Jackie Nuñez, Founder of The Last Plastic Straw and Advocacy Program Manager at Plastic Pollution Coalition, was selected to embark on leg 15 of the eXXpedition, an all-women voyage to document plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.
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