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The Friends of Ocean ActionThe 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 FundGreen ammonia is a technically feasible solution for decarbonising international shipping.
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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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Science-based method highlights 10 sites that would help safeguard biodiversity beyond national waters
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Dundas, S.J., et al., Conservation Letters/ Wiley Periodicals
Recent warnings from scientists suggest there is limited time to enact policies to avert wide-ranging ecological and social damage from climate change. In the United States, discussions about comprehensive national policies to avert climate change have begun, with “Green New Deal” proposals and climate plans put forth by members of Congress and presidential candidates. Oceans are largely absent or separate from these nascent policy proposals.
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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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Thiele, T. et al., IUCN
All coastal and marine ecosystems are critical to human well-being and global biodiversity. Mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrass beds are examples of these. But urban and rural infrastructure investments are having a heavy negative impact on these systems, and it is increasing over time.
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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 SocietyAmmonia 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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The Blue Economy and the United Nations’ sustainable development goals: Challenges and opportunities
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Lee, KH et al., Environment InternationalThe “Blue Economy (BE)” is an increasingly popular concept as a strategy for safeguarding the world’s oceans and water resources. It may emerge when economic activity is in balance with the long term capacity of ocean ecosystems to support the activity in a sustainable manner.
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Jouffray, J.P. et al., One Earth
Does humanity's future lie in the ocean? As demand for resources continues to grow and land-based sources decline, expectations for the ocean as an engine of human development are increasing.
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How could Earth's changing climate impact socioeconomic systems across the world in the next three decades? A yearlong, cross-disciplinary research effort at McKinsey & Company provides some answers. McKinsey Global Institute
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The 15th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report comes as long-mounting, interconnected risks are being felt. The global economy is faced with a “synchronized slowdown”, the past five years have been the warmest on record, and cyberattacks are expected to increase this year The World Economic Forum
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Jim Leape, Mark Abbott and Hide Sakaguchi
This paper examines existing and breakthrough technologies, such as drones, AI, and blockchains, and the associated challenges and possibilities they pose for ocean management and improving understanding of ecosystems and human interactions with the ocean.
It also explores potential markets that could stimulate demand for ocean data and ways public and private players can drive the deployment of these new models.
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Increased use of renewable energy, combined with intensified electrification, could prove decisive for the world to meet key climate goals by 2050.
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High Level Panel for a Sustainable Economy Climate change is altering ocean climate, chemistry, circulation, sea level and ice distribution. Collectively, these system changes have critical impacts on the habitats, biological productivities and species assemblages that underpin many of the economic benefits of the sea.
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Ove Hoegh-GuldbergThe HLP report offers the first comprehensive, integrated assessment of the mitigation potential of a suite of ocean-based activities: renewable energy, transport, food production, and ecosystems, and the potential future contribution from carbon storage if current concerns can be resolved.
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