Deep Dives
Thought-provoking research providing extensive learning opportunities
• The Economist Group, World Ocean Initiative • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism
Drawing on the latest data and in-depth interviews with leading experts in government, business, finance and conservation, this report provides valuable insights for all stakeholders working to achieve a sustainable ocean economy.
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• Manaswita Konar and Helen Ding Secretariat of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, World Resources Institute • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism
The ocean faces urgent environmental challenges, but taking action to protect oceanbased ecosystems and ensuring the environmental sustainability of ocean-based activities will help deliver a whole host of benefits to society. The key question is how these benefits compare to the costs of action.
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• Peter M. Haugan and Lisa A. Levin • Energy Solutions
This paper examines how and to what degree energy from the ocean can contribute to the climate agenda and achieving SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), including identifying new solutions and their potential impact, as well as addressing related safety and environmental concerns.
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• Nicholas Walton • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism
The ocean has great potential to become a solution, but only if there's the political will to build a strong ocean economy.
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• Conrad MacKerron, KellyMcBee, & David Shugar • Plastics & Pollution
This study measures the progress of 50 large companies in the beverage, quick-service restaurant, consumer packaged goods, and retail sectors on six core pillars where swift action is needed to reduce plastic pollution.
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• Elizabeth Claire Alberts • Energy Solutions • Plastics & Pollution
Deep-sea mining has not yet begun anywhere in the world, but many companies are already prospecting the seabed for nodules and other forms of minerals to assess their size, composition, distribution, and economic value.
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• One Ocean Foundation • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism
The ocean matters and has widespread implications beyond the ocean itself.
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• Gitika Bhardwaj and Karen Sack
President and CEO of Ocean Unite, Karen Sack, speaks to Gitika Bhardwaj about why the first global treaty to protect the world’s ocean is urgently needed.
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• Friends of Ocean Action Impact • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism
Friends of Ocean Action Impact Report: The Business Case for Marine Protection and Conservation
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• World Economic Forum • Energy Solutions
In collaboration with the Global Future Council on Energy 2019-2020
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• The Friends of Ocean Action • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism
The Ocean Finance Handbook, is a guide to support an increase in finance flowing towards the sustainable blue economy. The Handbook provides a key resource to enhance understanding of finance for a healthy ocean and generate conversations between financial institutions and marine-based businesses, conservation professionals and ocean project managers.
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• Nick Ash & Tim Scarbrough, Environmental Defense Fund • Energy Solutions • Shipping & Ports
Green ammonia is a technically feasible solution for decarbonising international shipping.
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• International Maritime Organization • Shipping & Ports
Nations meeting at the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London have adopted an initial strategy on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships, setting out a vision to reduce GHG emissions from international shipping and phase them out, as soon as possible in this century.
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• Anna (Anya) Phelan
This paper examines the role of community-based ecotourism within the developing market dynamics of the blue economy.
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• Pew Research Center • Tourism
Science-based method highlights 10 sites that would help safeguard biodiversity beyond national waters
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• Rainforest Action Network
For the banks highlighted in this report, the last year has brought a groundswell of activism demanding banks cut their fossil fuel financing, at the same time that increasingly extreme weather events have further underscored the urgency of the climate crisis.
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• LAEDC and Altasea • Shipping & Ports
Conservative estimates indicate that the value of the blue economy will double over the next decade, with a projected global value of $3 trillion by 2030.
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• Eugenio Rastelli, Bruna Petani, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Antonio Dell’Anno, Marco Lo Martire, Carlo Cerrano & Roberto Danovaro
Given the climate change scenarios predicted for the future, we conclude that biodiversity conservation of hard-bottom ecosystems is fundamental also for mitigating the impacts of ocean acidification.
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• The Royal Society • Energy Solutions • Shipping & Ports
Ammonia is a suitable fuel for transport modes where large amounts of energy are required for extended periods of time and where batteries or direct electrical connection are not practical or cost effective. Examples include heavy good vehicles, trains, aviation and shipping.
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• Credit Suisse and Responsible Investor
In addition to being the largest natural carbon sink on the planet, our ocean is a tremendous source of economic livelihoods for billions of people. The value of global ocean assets is estimated at over US$24 trillion -- making it the seventh largest economy in the world in GDP terms.Read more → (more than 30 minute read)
