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Aquaculture Industry Review

One Ocean Foundation Fisheries & Aquaculture

This research is an initiative of the One Ocean Foundation, as part of its project Ocean Disclosure Initiative.

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The shipping industry’s fuel choices on the path to net zero

Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation, Global Maritime Forum, and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping Shipping & Ports

Industry leaders know they must adopt greener fuels in order to decarbonize. Is a multifuel future in store?

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The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests

Eger, A.M. et al., Nature Communications Fisheries & Aquaculture

While marine kelp forests have provided valuable ecosystem services for millennia, the global ecological and economic value of those services is largely unresolved. Kelp forests are diminishing in many regions worldwide, and efforts to manage these ecosystems are hindered without accurate estimates of the value of the services that kelp forests provide to human societies.

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Could removing carbon from the ocean be a climate change solution?

Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times Plastics & Pollution

The ocean, after all, has long been a silent hero when it comes to climate change.

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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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A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required

Eriksen, M. et al., PLoS One Plastics & Pollution

As global awareness, science, and policy interventions for plastic escalate, institutions around the world are seeking preventative strategies. Central to this is the need for precise global time series of plastic pollution with which we can assess whether implemented policies are effective, but at present we lack these data.

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A Global Sustainable Aquaculture Roadmap

Chris Ninnes et al., World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture

Aquaculture can help us transform our food systems and tackle the effects of biodiversity loss and climate change. But we need to make sure we develop the sector sustainably. This global roadmap sets out four pathways for the responsible development of aquaculture. It aims to help the aquaculture sector create the conditions to produce healthy, nutritious and accessible blue foods that benefit people and the planet. The recommendations outlined in this roadmap require collaborative action in aquaculture across geographies and sectors to achieve greater social, economic and environmental benefits by 2030. Scroll down for our summary roadmap and key actions or download the full roadmap.

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Peak Plastics: Bending the Consumption Curve

Back to Blue, Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation Plastics & Pollution

Peak plastics is an Economist Impact report for Back to Blue, an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation. This report examines the potential impact of three key policies that cover the entire lifecycle of plastic, from production to disposal. These approaches are being considered by negotiators working on a legally binding UN treaty to reduce plastic pollution.

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World Ocean Outlook 2023: Building on the Ocean Momentum

World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Impact

The report focuses on solutions and opportunities for action to address the three planetary crises: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

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Exploring Future Research and Innovation Directions For A Sustainable Blue Economy

Pace, L. et al., Marine Policy

This study explores the role of foresight in co-creating alternative, preferred futures for a sustainable blue economy looking towards 2030 and in establishing an interdisciplinary dialogue about research and innovation opportunities to achieve these futures.

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Four Ways Blue Foods Can Help Food System Ambitions Across Nations

Crona, B.I., et al., Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture

Blue foods, sourced in aquatic environments, are important for the economies, livelihoods, nutritional security and cultures of people in many nations.

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Climate Risk In Financial Portfolios

Knut N. Kjær

This presentation by Knut N. Kjaer explores how global warming is caused by market failure and is a threat to our civilization. Most financial portfolios are affected by climate risk. Kjaer explores the principles for dealing with this risk. 

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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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The ESG Playbook for Shipping

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping Energy Solutions

The ESG Playbook for Shipping is co-developed by Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping and Boston Consulting Group to help shipping companies create robust ESG strategies.

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UNDP Blue Economy Action Brief

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

An Ocean of Opportunities - How the Blue Economy Can Transform Sustainable Development in Small Islands Developing States.

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Plastic Waste Makers Index

Minderoo Foundation Plastics & Pollution

A compelling new report by the Minderoo Foundation has uncovered that despite rising consumer awareness, corporate attention, and regulation, an additional 6 million metric tons (MMT) of waste was generated in 2021 compared to 2019 — still almost entirely made from fossil fuel-based “virgin” feedstocks.

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The Ocean and the Sustainable Development Goals

World Ocean Initiative, Economist Impact

The World Ocean Initiative's deep dive into how the ocean flows through all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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