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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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OECD Energy Solutions
An analysis of the blue economy's potential between 2010 and 2030.
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One Ocean Foundation BrightTalk Energy Solutions ESG Fisheries & Aquaculture GreenMoney 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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Bureau of Economic Analysis - U.S. Department of Commerce
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has developed prototype statistics to measure the ocean’s contribution to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP).
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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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Biermann, L., et al., Nature Plastics & Pollution
Satellites collecting optical data offer a unique perspective from which to observe the problem of plastic litter in the marine environment, but few studies have successfully demonstrated their use for this purpose.
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Blasiak, R., R. Wynberg, K. Grorud-Colvert, S. Thambisetty, et al., World Resources Institute
This paper considers the existing and potential benefits associated with the ocean genome, the threats it is facing, and the crucial importance of conservation to maintain the ocean’s genetic diversity. The paper also explores how efforts to promote inclusive innovation and better governance can contribute to more equitable sharing of benefits derived from the use of marine genetic resources.
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The Friends of Ocean Action BrightTalk Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture GreenMoney 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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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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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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