Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Jennifer Lynch, SEVENSEAS Media Plastics & Pollution
A new study on the Pacific Ocean’s floating trash indicates not only a significant accumulation of microplastics in the Hawaiian Islands, but that larval fish are eating the debris.
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CNBC Energy Solutions
Piva, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, announced on Wednesday that it raised $250 million for its first fund, which will focus on the next era of energy, industry and materials.Read more → (4 minute read)
Olivia Rosane Energy Solutions
We can save hundreds of millions of people from poverty by 2050 by limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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David Hume, The Liquid Grid Shipping & Ports
The maritime industry is in need of fixing. It must find new ways to move cargo with less emissions. However, just like repairing a bicycle’s shifter, we can’t rely on a single tool to get the job done.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Fisheries & Aquaculture
The first blue paper commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy finds that, if mariculture is better managed, the world can both produce more food, and do so profitably.
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Mindy Weisberger Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
When workers with a whale strandings agency in Scotland performed a necropsy on a recently beached sperm whale, they found a gruesome surprise: The animal had died with around 220 lbs. (100 kilograms) of trash in its stomach.Read more → (4 minute read)
Michael Crispino Fisheries & Aquaculture
Our planet’s health—and our own well-being—is dependent on a vibrant ocean rich with natural resources. Oceans provide but must also thrive. Sustainable fishing can be an effective way to balance the needs of people and nature by protecting complex, interconnected ecosystems while providing food security and livelihoods for coastal communities.Read more → (4 minute read)
Olivia Rosane Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
Discarded plastic fishing equipment, dubbed "ghost gear," is especially dangerous to marine life because it was designed to trap and kill it.Read more → (3 minute read)
Our Daily Planet Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new report from the Stimson Center, a global security think tank concludes that globally the fishing industry — particularly fishing vessels that ply waters far from their home (“the distant water fleet”) — is unsustainable and the only way to reign it in is through much greater transparency so that these vessels’ movements and catches can be more closely monitored by governments and NGOs.Read more → (3 minute read)
By Julie Zaugg and Jared Peng, CNN Fisheries & Aquaculture
Authorities in China have approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the first new medicine with the potential to treat the cognitive disorder in 17 years. The seaweed-based drug, called Oligomannate, can be used for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's, according to a statement from China's drug safety agency.
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WM. Robert Irvin Energy Solutions
As society grapples with climate change and the challenge of decarbonizing the national energy grid, proponents increasingly hold up hydropower as an indispensable part of the solution, touting it as “clean, green energy.”Read more → (19 minute read)
World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group
As the world debates the definition of blue finance, the need to place sustainability at its centre is clear. Improving transparency and accountability in sustainable ocean projects will accelerate participation from private-sector finance.
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Noah Smith, Bloomberg Plastics & Pollution
Most environmental problems are concentrated in the area where the pollution is produced. This is good, because it’s a lot easier for a single city or country to deal with an environmental challenge than it is for the international community.There are two huge exceptions to this. The first is global warming, which (as the name implies) affects everyone. The second is the world’s oceans, most of which are not claimed as the territory of any nation or the property of any individual.
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Emily Petsko, Oceana Fisheries & Aquaculture
Oceana works to save the oceans and feed the world, and we can't do that without sustainable seafood. We help our oceans thrive by promoting fishery policies that follow science-based quotas, reduce bycatch, put an end to overfishing and protect fragile habitats. These tactics not only help marine life flourish — a win in its own right — but also ensure that our oceans can continue to nourish the people who need it most.Read more → (7 minute read)
Nicole Jewell, INHABITAT
There are products that completely revolutionize the fashion industry for their eco-friendly approach and innovative vision.
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Patti Harris, CEO, Bloomberg Philanthropies
This week, I traveled to Oslo to attend the 6th annual convening of Our Ocean, and after spending time with so many like-minded partners and leaders from across sectors and around the world, I’m more optimistic than ever about what’s possible for the global movement to protect the ocean.Read more → (3 minute read)
United Nations
The signatories to the principles include the container ship and supply vessel operator A.P. Møller – Mærsk, food and beverage company PepsiCo, and Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages one of the world’s largest funds with over US$ 1 trillion in assets.Read more → (10 minute read)
J.A. Bower Tourism
Royal Caribbean announced last week that its fifth Oasis-class ship will be named Wonder of the Seas. Perhaps more interestingly, the cruise line also announced that it will homeport in Shanghai. The 5,448-passenger new vessel, set to become the largest ship in the world at the time of its 2021 debut, will reportedly serve the Chinese market year-round.
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Dan Jacobson Energy Solutions
California needs to find a way to harness the wind off its coast to power an electric grid that will rely more than ever on clean, renewable energy.Read more → (3 minute read)
Marine Stewardship Council Fisheries & Aquaculture
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), responsible for the world’s leading sustainable seafood ecolabel and certification programme, has today published a report showing continued growth in the demand for and supply of sustainable seafood.
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