Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Barclay Ballard Shipping & Ports
Getting the shipping industry to reduce its environmental impact presents a huge challenge. Fortunately, a number of collaborative initiatives have been launched in the hope of creating a greener future
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Martin Koehring, The Economist Group- World Ocean Initiative Plastics & Pollution
Recent World Ocean Initiative coverage highlights the need for systemic change, concerted corporate action and international collaboration, says Martin Koehring, head of the World Ocean Initiative.
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Douglas Broom Plastics & Pollution
Artificial reefs are vital in protecting offshore wind farms from strong tides, but existing defences often contain plastic, which could be harmful to marine life.
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Cristine Morgan, Greenbiz Fisheries & Aquaculture
While increased seafood consumption may be good short-term news for the U.S. seafood industry, it also is combating other major challenges, such as severely decreased foodservice and export business due to the pandemic.
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FAO’s State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020 tracks growing fish production and consumption, and highlights the promise of sustainability actions
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WORLD OCEAN INITIATIVE Energy Solutions
Florida startup OceanBased taps the Gulf Stream for a full day—and it now wants to go big.
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Jacob Duer, The ASEAN Post Plastics & Pollution
If we are not careful, short-term thinking during the pandemic could lead to an even larger environmental and public-health calamity in the future.
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Levin, L., et al., World Resources Institute Energy Solutions
As clean energy expands, demand for metals and rare earth elements is growing along with it. Developing the wind turbines, solar panels and batteries that will power our low-carbon future requires cobalt, nickel, zinc, copper, silver, gold, lithium and more.
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Lisa Levin, Peter Haugan, Ines Aguiar Branco and Katie Flanagan Energy Solutions
A new Blue Paper commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy finds that deep-seabed mining is a potentially risky proposition that may, in fact, be unnecessary given the rapid development of alternative technologies that reduce demand.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Fisheries & Aquaculture
Ocean genomes are fundamental to the abundance and resilience of the ocean, not to mention potential medical and sustainability breakthroughs, an influential report concludes.
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Carla Cantor Fisheries & Aquaculture
A Columbia study provides a blueprint for the use of genomics to help combat climate change.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Tourism
In the second of our Q&As with the three winners of the Women and the ocean: Changemakers challenge, we speak to Olga Lucía Caro Jácome, chief executive and co-founder of ProcoReef, about coral-reef restoration.
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IntraFish Media Fisheries & Aquaculture
The fund will be used to further plant-based foods in the seafood space.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Plastics & Pollution
Reducing the range of plastic types, improving waste management in developing-country cities and incentivising the market to recycle were some of the solutions to waste plastic considered in the World Ocean Initiative’s latest webinar.
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Vanessa Fajans-Turner, Investable Oceans Fisheries & Aquaculture
There are three criteria for sustainable seafood: environmental protection, economic viability and social responsibility.
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Rob Kaplan Energy Solutions Plastics & Pollution
Climate finance and circular plastic investing are going to need to come together to address the climate crisis in a comprehensive way. Only by looking beyond renewables and closing the gaps and improving the production of materials like plastics, aluminum and so on can we develop the kind of circular economy we need to solve both the climate and plastic pollution problems.
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Craig Pittman Energy Solutions
Off the coast of Florida, testing whether the Gulf Stream can produce carbon-free electricity
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Virginia Gewin
They are critical to stop overfishing and slow global warming. Now environmentalists fear the chance may be lost.
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Jack Kittinger
What has emerged from our research is a survival guide, one that can explain what works -- where and why. If we want to overcome the pandemic destroying our reefs, we must put this plan into action.
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Vattenfall Press Office Energy Solutions
Vattenfall has taken final investment decision for Hollandse Kust Zuid 1-4 proceeding with the construction of what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm.
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