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New Land-based Aquaculture Report Includes Over 400 projects

Undercurrent News Energy Solutions

A new report by Spheric Research and Undercurrent News features an analysis of the booming aquaculture sector.

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Ocean Climate Action Plan

Ocean Policy Committee, The White House Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports

The OCAP outlines three goals that mobilize the Federal Government and civil society to take effective and innovative ocean climate action.

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AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023

IPCC Energy Solutions

The IPCC finalized the Synthesis Report for the Sixth Assessment Report during the Panel's 58th Session held in Interlaken, Switzerland from 13 - 19 March 2023.

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BlueInvest: new investor report features an ocean of investment opportunities in the sustainable blue economy

European Commission Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism

Today, the European Commission is unveiling a new investor report, on the occasion of the BlueInvest Day 2023.

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Space-Based Solutions for the Blue Economy

Copernicus EU Energy Solutions

According to the latest Blue Economy report, traditional sectors of the blue economy provide 4.5 million direct jobs and generate over €650 billion in turnover. 

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High-Quality Blue Carbon Principles and Guidance A Triple-Benefit Investment for People, Nature, and Climate

Conservation International Energy Solutions

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises and advance climate justice, we must invest in high-quality solutions, like blue carbon, that deliver outcomes for people, nature, and climate.

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Biocredits to Finance Nature and People

Anna Ducros and Paul Steele, UNDP Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism

Biodiversity is degrading at alarming rates, and people living in biodiversity-rich areas often bear the heaviest costs of biodiversity loss and inequitable conservation efforts. Biodiversity credits, or ‘biocredits’, are emerging as a tradeable unit of biodiversity that can incentivise nature conservation and restoration to benefit marginalised groups living with nature.

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The Top 15 Anticipated ESG-Related Considerations That Will Influence Strategy in 2023

Dan Romito, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance Energy Solutions

The Top 15 Anticipated ESG-Related Considerations That Will Influence Strategy in 2023.

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Assessing the Financial Links to Natural Capital

Goldman Sachs Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture

A new report by Goldman Sachs explores how biodiversity is the cornerstone around which most sustainability objectives sit and an area which corporations and investors will likely pay increased attention in order to meet sustainability and economic goals.

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An Evolution Towards Scientific Consensus for a Sustainable Ocean Future

Nature.com Energy Solutions

The ocean has recently taken centre stage in the global geopolitical landscape. Despite rising challenges to the effectiveness of multilateralism, attention to ocean issues appears as an opportunity to co-create pathways to ocean sustainability at multiple levels.

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5 Ocean Startups Transforming the Future of Marine Conservation

Anthony de Freitas, Startup Savant Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports

A roundup of 5 ocean startups transforming the future of marine conservation.

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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

Working Group III, IPCC Energy Solutions

Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.

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Climate Solutions Investments

Cheema-Fox, A. et al., Harvard Business School Energy Solutions

An increasing number of companies are providing products and services that help reduce carbon emissions in the economy.

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The Century-Old Renewable You’ve Never Heard Of

Mark Betancourt, Eos Energy Solutions

Ocean thermal energy conversion could power the world’s tropical islands, if it ever gets out of the “innovation valley of death.”

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A European Ocean Energy Industry – the €140bn Economic Opportunity

ETIP Ocean Energy Solutions

Europe faces a choice – to lead or to follow the emerging ocean energy global market.

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The Anatomy of the Carbon Market

International Emissions Trading Association Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports

IETA is pleased to release its GHG Market Report 2021, which examines the carbon market body, capturing the various components that combine to form the vibrant - and growing - market, and how it is kept healthy.

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Blue carbon as a natural climate solution

Macreadie, P.I. et. al., Nature Energy Solutions

Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows, are gaining international recognition as a natural climate solution to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation targets.

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High resolution global spatiotemporal assessment of rooftop solar photovoltaics potential for renewable electricity generation

Joshi, S. et al., Nature Energy Solutions

Rooftop solar photovoltaics currently account for 40% of the global solar photovoltaics installed capacity and one-fourth of the total renewable capacity additions in 2018. Yet, only limited information is available on its global potential and associated costs at a high spatiotemporal resolution.

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AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

IPCC Energy Solutions

The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.

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Blue Carbon: A New Frontier for Ocean Conservation?

Blue Marine Foundation Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture

The emerging topic of blue carbon could play a huge role in the future protection and restoration of the ocean.

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