Deep Dives
Thought-provoking research providing extensive learning opportunities
Jessica Moran, AMP News Energy Solutions
For the first time in Australia's history, a wave energy converter trial has successfully generated energy from the chaotic and wild ocean waves to power homes.
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Ditria, E. et al., Fisheries & Aquaculture
An automated approach facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) provides conservation managers with a toolkit that can help alleviate a number of these issues by reducing the monitoring bottlenecks and long-term costs of monitoring.
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Tensie Whelan, Harvard Business Review
A predictable backlash against ESG investing has arrived, with right wing politicians attacking ESG investors for promoting what they see as a “woke” agenda, and the SEC cracking down on “ESG-washing” by asset managers.
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UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
This pilot edition of the State of the Ocean Report (StOR) was proposed and developed to demonstrate the feasibility of keeping the world up to date on the current state of the ocean.
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Conners, M. et al.
Despite most home ranges of mobile marine megafauna being much larger than existing MPAs, we demonstrate how benefits from MPAs are still likely to accrue by targeting seasonal aggregations and critical life history stages and through other management techniques.
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Dennis Fritsch, UNEP FI on Fisheries & Aquaculture
Investors need to understand the potential risks associated with ‘business as usual’ in the seafood sector and seek opportunities to play a role in supporting the transition towards sustainable seafood finance.
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Chuku, E.O., et al
The observation of an across-the-region presence of estuarine and mangrove ecosystems with several harvested species of socio-economic importance to women harvesters and their households signals the feasibility of women-led shellfisheries as an avenue for an integrated approach to sustainable management of these systems in West Africa.
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Elizabeth Devitt, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Global interest in studying seaweed for food, carbon storage and other uses could help improve wild kelp restoration methods.
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ARNO VAN ’T HOOG, WAGENINGENWORLD Fisheries & Aquaculture
Adapting crops and farming systems is now a crucial task for agricultural science.
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Herbert-Read, J.E., Thornton, A., Amon, D.J. et al., Nat Ecol Evol Plastics & Pollution
The biodiversity of marine and coastal habitats is experiencing unprecedented change.
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Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy, PEW
By linking their MPAs, regions could build climate resilience, reverse biodiversity loss, and support communities.
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FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 presents updated and verified statistics of the sector and analyses its international policy context and selected high-impact actions undertaken to accelerate international efforts in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist
Ocean leaders and industry experts at the 9th World Ocean Summit showcased how a number of sectors are already taking measures to preserve ocean health and build a thriving, sustainable blue economy.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group
The ultimate deep dive into ocean challenges and opportunities for collective action, from [The World Ocean Initiative's] March 2022 event.
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UNEP Finance Initiative
This document provides an overview of the recommended activities to exclude from financing in the sustainable blue economy, based on market-first Turning the Tide guidance for financial institutions.
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One Ocean Foundation
The objective of this report is to introduce the steps taken to develop the Ocean Disclosure Initiative (ODI), a science-based framework and methodology aimed at supporting businesses from all industries in taking action on ocean-related issues.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts & SYSTEMIQ Plastics & Pollution
A comprehensive assessment of pathways towards stopping ocean plastic pollution.
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Newday Impact Investing
The Fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in equity securities of Ocean Health Companies.
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WWF and Metabolic
In this report, WWF and Metabolic further develop the Value at Risk in the Blue Economy approach created in 2019.
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Claes, J. et al., McKinsey & Company
Nature-based climate solutions in the world's oceans can play an important role in conservation and carbon abatement efforts worldwide.
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