Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Hydro International, Geomares
The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) 2021–2030 is about to start. The Ocean Decade seeks to generate and use knowledge for transformative actions needed to achieve a healthy and resilient, safe and productive ocean.
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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
A nearly $900,000 grant awarded to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will be used to explore how kelp aquaculture can remediate negative effects of climate change. The international project is funded by World Wildlife Fund with support from the Bezos Earth Fund.
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Writing Staff, SEVENSEAS Media Fisheries & Aquaculture
The Gulf of Maine Research Institute announced the launch of The Maine Aquaculturist — a free-to-use online knowledge portal designed to help Maine’s sea farmers access an array of existing business resources across the state.
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Andrew Spence, SEVENSEAS Media Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Construction of the first farm and processing plant to turn red seaweed into a feed supplement for cows to reduce their methane production by 90 per cent is expected to begin mid next year in South Australia.
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Madelyn Kearns, SeafoodSource Fisheries & Aquaculture
The International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF), in partnership with IPNLF member Asosiasi Perikanan Pole and Line dan Handline Indonesia (AP2HI), has announced that eight Indonesian one-by-one tuna fisheries have achieved Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.
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Joe Thwaites, World Resources Institute Energy Solutions
Providing funding to poorer nations to undertake climate action is not only a moral and legal responsibility for developed countries, but also a strategic investment in a cleaner and more resilient world. Such support pays dividends by reducing the severity and costs of climate impacts for people, including extreme weather, ecosystem loss and societal instability both at home and abroad.
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Investors' Corner, BNP Paribas Asset Management
The sheer size of the blue economy means it can offer substantial development potential around ocean resources. Having already seen major technological development, the blue economy can provide investors with unique opportunities.
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Hallee Meltzer, NOAA Fisheries & Aquaculture
Sea Grant today announced $4.7 million in federal funding to support 12 research projects to advance the understanding of the economics of aquaculture businesses and provide the industry with important market information to aid sustainable growth in the U.S.
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Power Engineering International Energy Solutions
The National Carbon Capture Center has announced the “first fire” of its new natural gas infrastructure, paving the way for the first test runs of carbon capture technologies using actual natural gas-derived flue gas.
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World Resources Institute
WASHINGTON (January 27, 2021)—President Biden signed sweeping Executive Orders to address climate change, protect biodiversity, improve environmental justice and create clean energy jobs across America.
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National Ocean Service, NOAA Fisheries & Aquaculture
Understanding vulnerability to coastal acidification: scientists, oyster growers and restoration specialists working together in the Chesapeake Bay.
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GRID-Arendal Plastics & Pollution
Mangrove ecosystems are at particular risk of being polluted by plastic carried from rivers to the sea.
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Clayton Starr, The Liquid Grid Fisheries & Aquaculture
Nature-based or natural climate solutions involve managing ecosystems to respond to climate change. One strategy with increasing buzz is macroalgae aquaculture and restoration.
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Manish Bapna and Christina Chan, World Resources Institute Energy Solutions
The COVID-19 pandemic did not break the world, but rather revealed a world already broken. COVID-19 and the climate crisis exposed the fragility of economies and societies, upending the lives of people worldwide and, in particular, harming vulnerable communities and countries already facing multiple challenges.
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Jazmin Goodwin, CNN Business Energy Solutions
Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels for the first time last year, according to an annual report from Ember and Agora Energiewende.
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Nick Lavars, New Atlas Plastics & Pollution
A group of scientists studying the flow of plastic into the ocean have found a startling amount of pollution exiting South Asia's largest river systems.
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Sarah Riddle, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Sarah Riddle, director of business engagement at the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), looks at four key areas where the sector is likely to evolve during the next 12 months.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new initiative to promote promote both social and environmental sustainability in small-scale shrimp farms in Southeast Asia has been launched this week.
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Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture
Only a third of the UK’s key fish populations are in a healthy state, and catches of key species such as cod should be reduced this year as the UK negotiates fishing rights with the EU, according to the first post-Brexit assessment of the UK’s fisheries.
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Taylor Clayton, World Economic Forum Plastics & Pollution
The pandemic has exacerbated the already severe problem of plastic pollution. Here are eight young people from around the world who are leading the fight against our throwaway culture.
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