Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Dianne Plummer, Forbes Plastics & Pollution
As the world battles rising chronic disease and climate instability, seaweed is emerging as a rare solution to both.
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Melissa Jun Rowley, Rolling Stone
Here are three ways business owners and advocates can integrate wonder and awe into their strategic climate communications.
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Simon Jessop & Virginia Furness, Reuters Plastics & Pollution
The world is expected to need to suck between five and 10 billion tons a year of carbon emissions out of the atmosphere by mid-century to reach its climate goals, yet at the moment most technologies are small scale.
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Claudio de Sanctis, Project Syndicate
Despite the obvious importance of ocean processes and systems to planetary health and the global economy, humanity is not investing nearly enough in ocean sustainability.
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Dona Bertarelli & Wendy Schmidt, Time
When the world’s first marine reserves were established in the 1920s, Jacques Cousteau was an adolescent. The deepest we could dive was about 500 ft.
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World Bank Group Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture could generate as many as 22 million new jobs by 2050, according to a new report that foresees a $1.5 trillion investment opportunity in the sector over the same period.
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Marc Benioff and Ed Russo, TIME
We need more public-private alliances that can help turn proven ocean solutions into real-world outcomes.
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Eliza Harrison, Propeller VC
At Propeller, we don’t see the ocean as a standalone sector—we’re not suggesting an 8th sector!—we see it as a cross-sector catalyst for climate innovation.
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Stig Martin Fiskaa, World Economic Forum
Artificial intelligence (AI) could bridge the gap between traditional industrial ocean operations and the burgeoning sustainable blue economy.
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John F. Kerry, Project Syndicate
Against a backdrop of global uncertainty and questions about whether multilateral processes can still deliver, the countries represented at the latest UN Ocean Conference were largely united on the need for a more ambitious response to the challenges facing our ocean.
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Reuters
The third U.N. Ocean Conference in France last week yielded a number of financial deals and money pledges to help protect the seas, although the gap between funding and the estimated annual need of $175 billion remains large.
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Simon Jessop, Virginia Furness and Kate Abnett, Reuters
A U.N. push for investment to protect the world's oceans yielded around $10 billion in deals at a conference last week, way below the estimated annual need as many investors seek clearer regulation on ocean management before committing funds.
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
A slew of global leaders met in the south of France to discuss the future of the oceans. There was ‘momentum’ and ‘enthusiasm’, but there were critical voices too.
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Audrey Tan, The Stratis TImes
Norway-based impact investment firm Katapult Ocean will launch a US$50 million (S$64.1 million) fund in Singapore in early 2026 to invest in start-ups that support ocean health in Asia, The Straits Times has learnt.
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Felicia Jackson, Forbes Fisheries & Aquaculture
Investors can’t manage what they can’t measure and in the $40 billion global tuna industry, they’re largely flying blind.
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Danielle Rossingh, Impact Investor Plastics & Pollution
Six public development banks from Europe and Asia launched the Clean Oceans Initiative 2.0 as the third United Nations Ocean Conference kicked off this week.
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Krystle Higgins, Impact Investor
The fund will invest in startups working to support the regeneration of ocean biodiversity and has secured backing from the European Investment Fund and a range of institutional investors.
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Gary Howard, Seatrade Maritime News Shipping & Ports
More owners and operators prioritising decarbonisation, setting goals, implementing strategies, and using biofuels, GCMD report finds.
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Jonathan Kelsey & Karen Sack, BusinessGreen
Ocean conservation is not a cost - is a hedge against global volatility and an investment in prosperity, write Bloomberg Ocean Fund's Jonathan Kelsey, and Karen Sack from the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance.
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Alexandra Talty, The Guardian
Investment is pouring into companies promising to geoengineer a rapid change in the pH of our waters – but critics are concerned at the speed at which unproven methods are being adopted.
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