Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Lara Mouftier, World Economic Forum Shipping & Ports
The ocean supports billions of livelihoods and carries 80% of global trade by volume, yet increasingly faces climate hazards and operational disruption.
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SeaAhead
SeaAhead, a leading bluetech venture builder, announced the close of its first fund and plans to invest in up to seven bluetech startups over the next year.
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation Plastics & Pollution
As announced during New York Climate Week, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is partnering with Builders Vision Philanthropy and Minderoo Foundation to tackle flexible plastic packaging waste and pollution by accelerating the scaling of responsibly-designed paper-based alternatives.
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TIna FIscher, Mainbiz
Entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers and representatives of marine businesses from Maine and beyond will gather in Portland next week at the inaugural Maine Blue Economy Week to chart the future of the state’s $6.8 billion ocean economy.
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PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance Plastics & Pollution
The United Nations Global Compact and the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative, hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), in collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature's Greening Financial Regulation Initiative (WWF GFRI), today published a revised edition of the Ocean Investment Protocol (OIP).
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Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez, Eco-Business
Ahead of COP31, experts say ocean solutions and capital exist, but better financial architecture is needed to prepare and bundle projects, then match them with the right mix of blended finance.
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Financial Times Shipping & Ports
Rapid pace of innovation shows benefits of cross-industry collaboration.
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Dharamraj Dhutia & Khushi Malhotra, Reuters
India's first blue bond sale is imminent as a state-run financial institution and a local civic body aim to tap the novel debt market before the end of September, according to a company official and two merchant bankers.
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Offshore Energy Energy Solutions
Ocean energy can supply 13% of global electricity demand, as well as produce 21% of current EU consumption – more than fossil gas or hydroelectricity today, according to a new report from Ocean Energy Europe (OEE).
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Lauren Ernst, Ocean News & Technology Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
AWESOME—Advanced Wind Energy System Optimization & Monitoring for Efficiency—is a Horizon Europe project that delivers validated tools, standardized methodologies, and real-world performance data to reduce uncertainty around wind-assisted propulsion systems (WAPS).
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Anjanalakshmi G, Earth.org
Investments in the blue economy are lagging behind despite ocean health underpinning food security, climate resilience, and billion of lives.
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Alasdair Harris, World Economic Forum
The ocean can deliver carbon emissions reductions, while supporting food security and livelihoods for frontline and Indigenous communities who bear the heaviest costs of the climate crisis.
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Charlotte Doyle, World Bank Blogs
In Tanzania, a glass manufacturer is producing reusable glass bottles that are refilled and returned to the market an average of 18 times.
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Ocean Visions
Digital road map outlines priority actions needed for seaweed to support decarbonization across multiple sectors.
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UN Trade and Development Shipping & Ports Tourism
Ocean-related services now account for 58% of total ocean trade.
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Karolina Adamkiewicz, Impact Investor
Blue economy fund managers say investor interest is rising rapidly but regulatory uncertainty, an inadequate tax system, and a lack of interaction between the state and the private sector, among other headwinds, continue to constrain capital flows.
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Alfredo Giron & Meenakshi Wadhwa, Economist Enterprise
When coral reefs, mangroves, fisheries, and coastal ecosystems weaken, the economic consequences follow quickly: lost yields, declining tourism, damaged ports, rising insurance costs and shrinking local employment.
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Pushkala Ratan & Rwaida Gharib, World Bank
Our economies, communities, and future depend on attracting investment to the water sector.
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Splash Tech Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
The global fleet of large commercial vessels equipped with wind propulsion technology has surpassed the 100-ship mark, a milestone that underlines how rapidly wind energy is moving from niche concept to mainstream decarbonisation tool in shipping.
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Justin Worland, TIME Plastics & Pollution
Last year, J.P. Morgan estimated the value of ocean-related activity, what it called the “annual gross marine product,” at $2.5 trillion annually.
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