Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Adele Peters, Fast Company Fisheries & Aquaculture
Running Tide grows kelp, which sucks carbon from the atmosphere. Then it just lets it sink to the ocean floor, where the carbon will stay for a thousand years
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Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, World Resources Institute Energy Solutions Plastics & Pollution
Climate risk is not one risk, but bundles of complex risks that interact with each other and with existing vulnerabilities in our financial system. Also, these risks are heading toward us at an accelerating pace.
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Ian Johnson, Press Association Plastics & Pollution
An enzyme made by bacteria living on seaweed is being used to make environmentally-friendly laundry detergents.
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Margaryta Kirakosian, Citywire
Credit Suisse has partnered with Rockefeller Asset Management to launch a thematic equity fund that focuses on ocean preservation, Citywire Selector has learned.
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MÉLISSA GODIN for TIME Fisheries & Aquaculture
As climate change wreaks havoc on ecosystems across the planet, the world is turning to seaweed as a potential climate change solution
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Editorial staff, Salmon Business Fisheries & Aquaculture
Long-term annual harvest potential of 30,000-45,000 tonnes.
In a press release on the Oslo Stock Exchange, Grieg Seafood writes that it has been granted five new farming licenses in Newfoundland, Canada, reaching eight licenses in the region, corresponding to a total production capacity of up to 30 000 tonnes of the annual harvest.
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Writing staff, NZ Herald Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture startup CH4 Global is increasing its New Zealand operations to turn sustainable red seaweed into methane-busting livestock feed.
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World Ocean Initiative
The development of ocean accounts provides an unprecedented opportunity to showcase the value of the ocean and with it the prospect of long-term sustainability.
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Chloe Ranford Fisheries & Aquaculture
A boatload of mussel shells have been sunk off Marlborough’s shores to create a reef that will help revive marine life and a multimillion-dollar industry.
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Mark Harris Energy Solutions
Should billionaires be able to start tinkering with the climate without asking the rest of us?
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WORLD OCEAN INITIATIVE Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
The latest World Ocean Initiative webinar highlights recent developments in promoting ocean science, developing technological innovations and boosting financing instruments.
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Adrienne Murray Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Seaweed production has boomed. Between 2005 and 2015 volumes doubled, surpassing 30 million tonnes annually, reports the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
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James Richens Fisheries & Aquaculture
With wild-fish stocks falling, a huge increase in farmed fish will be needed to meet the protein needs of the planet. James Richens reports on how the search for sustainable sources is focusing on the deep oceans, on land and even the laboratory
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Devastated by pandemic, tourism sector must be rebuilt in a safe, equitable and climate friendly way
UN News Tourism
Tourism is much more than visiting cultural landmarks or swimming in tropical beaches; it is “one of the world’s most important economic sectors”, the UN chief said.
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Conrad Prabhu Fisheries & Aquaculture
Underscoring the Omani government’s ambitions to develop a thriving aquaculture industry in the Sultanate, Blue Waters (BWs) – a group company of Fisheries Development Oman (FDO) wholly owned by Oman Investment Authority (OIA) – recently took delivery of the largest shipment of fish fingerlings for its maiden fish farming project currently under implementation off Qurayyat in Muscat Governorate.
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Dan Vermeer, SeaAhead Fisheries & Aquaculture
While there is a lot of enthusiasm for expanding seaweed production and use, we haven’t yet seen the industry take off. What can be done to help sustainable seaweed live up to its potential?
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Ilana Mayid Fisheries & Aquaculture
According to a 2018 Markets and Markets report, the commercial seaweed industry is expected to reach $21 billion in revenues and grow at a compounded rate of 8.4% by 2023 due to seaweed’s functional properties in food processing and a growth in demand for a wider-array of seaweed-based products.
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Laura Rose, Global Aquaculture Alliance Fisheries & Aquaculture
Experts agree that aquatic proteins deserve a bigger share of the plate.
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Harry Cockburn, Independent Energy Solutions
Use of coal is falling and renewables are surging around the world, but the progress is not enough to meet the targets set under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, scientists have warned.
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World Ocean Initiative Plastics & Pollution
By 2040 it is estimated that roughly 29m tonnes of plastic will leak into the ocean annually, equivalent to 50kg of plastic for every metre of coastline around the world.
This startling figure is at the centre of a two-year research project that highlights current failures to deal with plastic waste and urgently calls for system-wide change.
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