Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy

Seaweed project wins million dollar XPRIZE for carbon removal

The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture

The Climate Foundation’s SeaForestation project has won a Milestone XPRIZE for carbon removal, from Elon Musk’s foundation.

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Could Anglesey’s tidal energy project drive a new energy revolution?

Jon Ungoed-Thomas, The Guardian Energy Solutions

Experts say Wales has huge potential for generating renewable marine power, yet, so far, ambitious schemes have been ignored.

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Highly contagious marine epidemic rips through Caribbean’s coral reefs

CJ Clouse, The Guardian

Frustration among scientists as many islands, hard hit by Covid and hurricanes, struggle to fight stony coral tissue loss disease.

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Cooking4Climate - Episode 3

Investable Oceans Fisheries & Aquaculture

The third installment of our “Cooking4Climate” Series - kelp burgers. Regenerative and really good!

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Living Coral Biobank Project Kicks off in Australia

Reef Builders Fisheries & Aquaculture

You might have heard of a seed bank but have you ever heard of a Living Coral Biobank?

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Sea-farmed supercrop: how seaweed could transform the way we live

Richard Orange, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture

From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap the marine plant’s huge potential.

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Want to learn more about investing in digital aquatech?

The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture

Aqua-spark has released its second edition of the Aqua Insights report and focuses its analysis on the investment landscape for digital aquatech.

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Strategy session: financing shipping decarbonisation

World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Shipping & Ports

The shipping industry is essential for global trade and yet also responsible for around 2.5% of greenhouse-gas emissions (GHGs), which could rise by 50-250% by 2050 if shipping is not decarbonised, according to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

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Oceans conference comes up with $16b in pledges to safeguard marine health

Carolyn Cowan, Mongabay

The seventh Our Ocean Conference took place in the Pacific island nation of Palau on April 13 and 14.

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USAID backs $6.3 million Madagascan sea cucumber and seaweed project

The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced 24 marine initiatives at the Our Ocean Conference, which took place in Palau this week.

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5 Ways to Build an Equitable Ocean Economy

Micheline Khan & Eliza Northrop, World Resources Institute

Sustainability and equity are two sides of the same coin.

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Fishing Without the Fish: Lab-Grown Seafood is on the Way

Back to Blue Initiative Fisheries & Aquaculture

At least 14 firms, from Hong Kong to Montreal, are “cultivating” seafood entirely in laboratories.

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NOAA backs Aquaculture Opportunity Areas

The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture

Scientists from NOAA recently delivered a number of talks on how Aquaculture Opportunity Areas can develop economic and environmental resiliency, and serve as a vital complement to wild-catch fisheries.

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ADB Launches First Blue Bond Incubator to Boost Ocean Investment

Asian Development Bank

The Blue Bond Incubator is supported by ADB’s Asia-Pacific Climate Finance Fund (ACliFF) and will help scale up sovereign and corporate blue bond issuances for critical ocean investment.

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NMBU hosts multi-stakeholder alt-seafood session

The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture

The Alt Protein Project is creating a transdisciplinary capacity and collaborative environment by linking theory and practice.

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Sunscreen chemicals accumulating in Mediterranean seagrass, finds study

Safi Bugel, The Guardian Plastics & Pollution

UV filters absorbed by Posidonia oceanica may have damaging effects on ecosystems, scientists warn.

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Are blue carbon markets becoming mainstream?

World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Energy Solutions

Mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are powerful nature-based net-zero solutions.

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Oceans and their largest inhabitants could be the key to storing our carbon emissions

David King & Jane Lichtenstein, The Conversation Energy Solutions

It’s time to turn to our oceans for help, an approach consistent with the IPCC’s climate objectives, yet which remains relatively overlooked.

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‘Black carbon’ threat to Arctic as sea routes open up with global heating

Karen McVeigh, The Guardian Shipping & Ports

As climate crisis allows new maritime routes to be used, sooty shipping emissions accelerates ice melt and risk to ecosystems.

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Investors Critical in Bridging the Efficiency Gap in Marine Protection, Finds Planet Tracker

Planet Tracker

With widespread funding shortages seeing the majority of Marine Protected Areas fall short on conservation objectives, Planet Tracker introduces a new instrument to incentivise efficiency.

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