Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Sadia Nowshin, Sifted Fisheries & Aquaculture
VCs are all over climate tech — but there’s untapped potential hiding in the oceans.
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Rebecca Hubbard, Economist Impact
A guest blog by Rebecca Hubbard director, High Seas Alliance.
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James Murray, Business Green
Major new impact fund looking to ramp up investments in entrepreneurs and businesses working to reduce negative impacts on ocean ecosystems.
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Economist Impact
There remains a stark gap between men and women’s participation in the blue economy.
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World Ocean Summit & Expo, Economist Impact
Increased climate and ocean data are offering insights into how to fight climate change and develop the blue economy sustainably.
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World Ocean Summit & Expo, Economist Impact Fisheries & Aquaculture
This session at the 11th annual World Ocean Summit explored how to create a sustainable pathway for scaling the seaweed industry to realise these diverse benefits.
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David Hume, The Liquid Grid
The ocean start-up ecosystem might have too many start-up support organizations for the limited number of ocean start-ups.
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World Ocean Summit & Expo, Economist Impact
This session at the 11th annual World Ocean Summit focused on how investors can invest better in the blue economy.
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Genevieve Redgrave, Environmental Finance
They are currently a niche within the sustainable bond market, but could blue bonds play a key role in turning the tide on water-themed investments, asks Genevieve Redgrave.
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Bruce McNamer, Impact Alpha Plastics & Pollution
Family offices are uniquely positioned to fund climate solutions in innovative and flexible ways, to operate in the seams, and to help other partners with the flexible piece they need to bring their own capital to bear.
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Andrew S. Lewis, Yale Environment 360 Energy Solutions
Our oceans absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. To boost that drawdown, startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal.’
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Audrey Tan, The Straits Times Fisheries & Aquaculture
The past decades have not been great for the oceans, we have continued to pollute and expose the oceans to environmental risks. Now is the time to agree on preserving and investing in the oceans.
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Chris Gorell Barnes, Economist Impact Fisheries & Aquaculture
The ocean is a critical player as both a source of environmentally sustainable and regenerative proteins and as an integral solution to mitigating the effects of the climate crisis.
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The Commonwealth
The Commonwealth today launched a new toolkit to promote gender-responsive practices in ocean-related occupations.
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Dominque Roberts, TechRound Fisheries & Aquaculture
Coral reefs play a vital role in sustaining ocean life, supporting fishing industries, and generating billions of pounds in revenue each year.
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William Austin, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Human activities, such as deepsea mining and bottom-trawling fishing practices, pose a threat to the ocean floor.
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Science Based Targets Network Fisheries & Aquaculture
Over the next few months, this new initiative will be piloting draft guidance for the first science-based targets covering seafood value chains.
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Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Eco Watch Fisheries & Aquaculture
The announcement was made at the Our Ocean Conference in Greece and is the largest pledge by the EU since the conference began a decade ago
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ORRAA Fisheries & Aquaculture
We need to rebuild ocean ecosystems and marine biodiversity if we are to ensure the wellbeing of the billions of people who live along the coast.
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Giada Ferraglioni, Carbon Pulse Fisheries & Aquaculture
Access to free, reliable, and real-time data is critical to ensuring effective marine conservation, so the Bloomberg Ocean Initiative has launched a new tool to help with just that.
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