Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Harri Weber, Tech Crunch Fisheries & Aquaculture
Recent sargassum surges are forcing folks to find creative ways to get rid of it, and already, possible applications run the gamut. Researchers and entrepreneurs aim to turn it into syrup, bricks and even jet fuel. As for Carbonwave, the Boston- and Puerto Rico–based startup is using it in fertilizer, cosmetics and even faux leather.
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Yabanex Batista, World Ocean Initiative
A blog by Yabanex Batista, deputy head, UN Global Team, Global Fund for Coral Reefs, as well as a speaker at the recent World Ocean Summit.
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Oliver Morrison, Food Navigator Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
EIT Food, the world’s largest food innovation community, has announced the results of its Marketed Innovation Prize, designed to reward innovative food start-ups that have successfully brought products or services to market.
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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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Tom Ford, plasticprize.org Plastics & Pollution
In 2020, Tom Ford partnered with Lonely Whale to launch the TOM FORD Plastic Innovation Prize, the only global competition focused on creating scalable and biologically degradable alternatives to traditional thin-film plastic polybags.
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Martin Koehring, World Ocean Initiative
Martin Koehring, head of Economist Impact’s World Ocean Initiative, reports back from a successful World Ocean Summit in Lisbon.
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Somini Sengupta, The New York Times Fisheries & Aquaculture
Seaweed has suddenly a hot global commodity, but can it survive climate change?
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Catriona Macleod, The Conversation Fisheries & Aquaculture
Seaweed is increasingly seen as a solution to many of the world’s most pressing problems. Interest in farming seaweed has exploded.
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The Economist Energy Solutions
But only now is it beginning to be studied properly.
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Laura Paddison, CNN Plastics & Pollution
The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study.
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The Economist Fisheries & Aquaculture
Long-neglected international waters will finally receive more protection.
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Investable Oceans
Happy International Women's Day! This year, the Investable Oceans team is highlighting the work of three renowned ocean stewards driving meaningful change in the blue economy – Marisa Drew, Angelique Pouponneau, and Megan Reilly Cayten.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Biotechnology firm Triplebar and cultivated seafood platform company Umami Meats are partnering to develop optimised cell lines for Japanese eel that can be used to produce cultivated seafood at scale.
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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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United Nations
Secretary-General António Guterres has congratulated UN member countries for finalizing a text to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, calling it a “breakthrough” after nearly two decades of talks.
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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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