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UNESCO/IOC Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
Outlines the opportunities for the private sector to support the objectives of the Decade of Ocean Science (2021-2030). Developed in collaboration with the UN Global Compact and IOC-UNESCO to raise the awareness of the Decade among private sector partners and draw the private sector’s attention to the key role of ocean science in building the blue economy in a sustainable manner.
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Hannah Friedman, Closed Loop Ventures Group & Internal Research Lead BrightTalk GreenMoney Plastics & Pollution
As part of our Advancing Circular Systems for Plastics & Packaging Initiative, Closed Loop Partners published Navigating Plastic Alternatives in a Circular Economy to demystify the rapidly growing and evolving landscape of plastic alternatives, with a focus on bio-based plastics, biopolymers and compostable products and packaging.
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Dr. Kimberly Warner, Elizabeth Linske, Patrick Mustain, Melissa Valliant and Christy Leavitt, Oceana Plastics & Pollution
In 2019, news outlets across the world reported on a beaked whale that died after ingesting more than 88 pounds of plastic. It had starved, and its digestive acid, unable to break down the compacted mass filling its stomach, had begun eating away at the animal from the inside out. But not all incidents like this make the news.
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Multiple contributors, Lloyd's Register Foundation Fisheries & Aquaculture
This seaweed manifesto is a visionary document outlining how seaweed can contribute to delivering on the sustainable development goals.
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Cage, A. et al., Planet Tracker Fisheries & Aquaculture
This report focuses on how debt markets can assist the sustainable management of feeds used in aquaculture.
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Stefan Milne, Seattle Met Fisheries & Aquaculture
The potential is vast—for the environment, for nutrition, for Indigenous food sovereignty.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit, World Ocean Initiative Energy Solutions
As the blue economy continues to grow, energy needs will continue to rise. At the same time, as new energy innovations emerge the potential of the blue economy to create both sustainable value and jobs can be realised through the expansion and transformation of existing markets as well as the creation of new ones.
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Sayara Thurston, Oceana Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
Seafood is one of the most highly traded food commodities in the world. In Canada, a lack of transparency in seafood supply chains is masking hidden costs – to the economy, our fisheries sector, ocean health and global human rights.
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Mosnier F. et al., Planet Tracker ESG Fisheries & Aquaculture
In this new Tracker Report, we move one notch down the seafood supply chain to focus on seafood processing companies, positioned half-way between harvesters (wild-catch fishing and aquaculture) and consumers. An under-researched industry, seafood processing is carried out by around 4,000 companies globally, which together handle most of the seafood produced globally. Many of them are also involved at other stages of the supply chain.
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The United States prioritizes responsible and sound environmental policies, both at home and abroad. Various agencies throughout the federal government are leading global efforts to prevent and remove litter from entering our oceans.
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United Nations Global Compact
The United Nations Global Compact has launched an initiative to accelerate blue bond issuance in the financial markets.
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Mariani, G., et al., Science Advances
Contrary to most terrestrial organisms, which release their carbon into the atmosphere after death, carcasses of large marine fish sink and sequester carbon in the deep ocean. Yet, fisheries have extracted a massive amount of this “blue carbon,” contributing to additional atmospheric CO2 emissions.
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Andy Steven, et al., High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
This paper highlights trends in coastal behaviour and comments on the dynamics that weaken and strengthen coastlines, including infrastructure, shipping, tourism, and future development plans. The paper makes an economic and security case for resilient coastlines, examines trade-offs between restoration and infrastructure development and recommends new models for shipping and tourism.
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Seaweed for Europe Fisheries & Aquaculture
Seaweed for Europe’s new report shows the economic potential of an expanded seaweed market in Europe could be worth €9 billion in just a decade. The report also finds that European seaweed industry could create up to 115,000 jobs in Europe by 2030 and deliver significant environmental and health benefits. Targeted investment, regulatory streamlining, increased research and development of new applications based on seaweed will be needed to unlock this opportunity.
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Beeston, M., Cuyvers, L., and Vermilye, J., Gallifrey Foundation Energy Solutions
There are robust scientific methods to measure carbon sequestration. There is substantial interest to invest in carbon sequestration projects for carbon offsets. Why has this not translated in more successful, on-the-ground blue carbon projects? The failure to resolve this puts too much at risk.
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Sumaila, U.R., et al., Ocean Panel / WRI
This paper examines how the next generation of financing mechanisms can support the ocean transition in an inclusive manner and how catalytic funds can be mobilised to finance that transition.
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Denise M. Mitrano & Wendel Wohlleben, Nature Communications Plastics & Pollution
The presence of plastic in the environment has sparked discussion amongst scientists, regulators and the general public as to how industrialization and consumerism is shaping our world. Here we discuss restrictions on the intentional use of primary microplastics: small solid polymer particles in applications ranging from agriculture to cosmetics.
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K. Kvale et al., Nature: Scientific Reports Plastics & Pollution
Every year, about four percent of the plastic waste generated worldwide ends up in the ocean. What happens to the plastic there is poorly understood, though a growing body of evidence suggests it is rapidly spreading throughout the global ocean.
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Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) and the Stanford Law School (SLS) Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
Largely out of sight, criminals pillage the oceans. They steal millions of tons of fish each year. That is a huge economic loss to coastal nations, estimated to be somewhere in the tens of billions of dollars. It is an even larger threat to food security; a billion people depend on fish as their source of protein, and in many of the countries that are most dependent, one fish in three is stolen. Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing undermines governments’ efforts to manage their resources and undercuts the millions of fishers who are playing by the rules.
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Winnie W. Y. Lau et al., Science Plastics & Pollution
Plastic pollution is a pervasive and growing problem. To estimate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce plastic pollution, we modeled stocks and flows of municipal solid waste and four sources of microplastics through the global plastic system for five scenarios between 2016 and 2040.
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