Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Jennifer McDermott, AP News Energy Solutions
The U.S. Energy Department said Wednesday it has a new strategy to meet the goal of vastly expanding offshore wind energy to address climate change.
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Amir Garanovic, Offshore Energy Energy Solutions
The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has launched a new competition for developers investigating novel technologies for harnessing and converting the power of ocean waves into usable types of energy.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver & Doyle Rice, USA Today Energy Solutions
President Joe Biden released a first-of-its-kind U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan on Tuesday, which he said will “harness the tremendous power of the ocean to help in our fight against the climate crisis.”
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Ceres Energy Solutions
The latest report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which lays out the current and growing impacts of the global climate crisis, is “devastating and harrowing—and yet it holds out hope,” said Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber.
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The Nature Conservancy Energy Solutions
The Nature Conservancy prepared this guide to help you understand what these climate reports are, what their findings mean for our world and what we can do.
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The Economist Energy Solutions
But only now is it beginning to be studied properly.
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The Fish Site Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
The Malaysian state of Sarawak is set to host Chitose Carbon Capture Central (C4), a firm that’s said to be the world’s largest mass microalgae biomass production facility, in April 2023.
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Rochelle Baker, Canada's National Observer Energy Solutions
A cutting-edge clean energy project to use ocean waves to power a coastal First Nation’s return to its traditional territory on Vancouver Island’s wild west coast just got a surge in funding.
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US Dept of State Energy Solutions
At the 2023 Our Ocean Conference in Panama, the U.S. delegation, headed by Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, worked with allies and partners to tackle the climate crisis, combat marine pollution, support sustainable fisheries, establish effective marine protected areas, promote a sustainable blue economy, and advance maritime security.
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UMASS News Energy Solutions
UMass Dartmouth and Congressman William Keating announced a $3.6M grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the Marine and UnderSea Technology research program (MUST) at UMass Dartmouth's collaborative research projects with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport.
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Chris Gorell Barnes, World Ocean Initiative Energy Solutions
A guest blog by Chris Gorell Barnes, founding partner, Ocean 14 Capital and speaker at the World Ocean Summit.
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American Journal of Transportation Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Washington Maritime Blue announced its fourth cohort, affectionately called the Fourth Wave, of the Maritime Blue Innovation Accelerator.
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Tim De Chant, TechCrunch Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports
For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors alike.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Impact Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
A recent session at Economist Impact’s World Ocean Summit Asia-Pacific, sponsored by Ocean Network Express (ONE), examined the progress and future plans of the shipping industry, as well as barriers to action.
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Akash Rastogi & Eric Siegel, World Ocean Initiative Energy Solutions
Ocean Frontier Institute’s Akash Rastogi and Eric Siegel explain how a science-based, research-led and adaptive approach is needed to better understand deep blue carbon’s potential and risks.
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Nicolas Rivero, The Miami Herald Energy Solutions
Cleaner fuels, electric power generate growing interest at Miami Boat Show.
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Petya Trendafilova, Carbon herald Energy Solutions
As ocean carbon removal is scaling up, the sector’s need of real time data about the ocean, monitoring its carbon cycle is growing rapidly. Ocean carbon removal startup Running Tide announced it has successfully deployed two separate constellations of its ocean observation platforms out of its base in Iceland.
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Peter Thomson, World Economic Forum Energy Solutions
Restoring ocean health is not just about verdant mangrove forests, thriving fish stocks and pristine blue waters, although these are all vitally important in their own right.
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World Economic Forum Energy Solutions
Public sector financing is not sufficient to meet an estimated $4 trillion to $6 trillion a year needed for a global net zero transformation. But the public sector can provided targeted support to address market failures and nurture public-private collaboration.
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World Economic Forum Energy Solutions
The climate crisis was high on the agenda at Davos 2023.
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