Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
The Maritime Executive Fisheries & Aquaculture
The EPA has opened solicitations for grant money totaling $3 billion, primarily aimed at reducing emissions and diesel exhaust pollution for cleaner ports.
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Jake Russell, Propeller
Reducing “launch costs” for ocean tech will unlock the blue economy, the same way the private space sector led to a boom in orbital observation and communications.
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Andrea Willige, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
KAUST in Saudi Arabia has released the Global Ocean Gene Catalog 1.0. It contains more than 317 million gene clusters and is the largest open-source catalogue of marine microbes to date.
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Impact Economist Energy Solutions
Offshore wind energy presents a chance to decrease global carbon footprint and to actively improve marine biodiversity at offshore wind sites.
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Chip Cunliffe, Climate Links
Chip Cunliffe is the Programme and Risk Director at the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), anchor partner of the Coastal Resilience, Carbon, and Conservation Finance (C3F) activity under the USAID Climate Finance for Development Accelerator.
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EMILY PONTECORVO, Heatmap Energy Solutions
A sea mineral called olivine, could enhance the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
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Gyorgyi Gurban, Economist Impact Shipping & Ports
Ahead of her panel discussion at this year’s World Ocean Summit, Gyorgyi Gurban, head of projects implementation, International Maritime Organisation on how greener shipping could be a game-changing opportunity to deliver on multiple sustainability targets.
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Marine Technology News Energy Solutions
The Department of Commerce and NOAA on Tuesday announced $3.9 million in awards to help small businesses improve climate resilience in communities across the nation.
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Aruni Soni, Business Insider
Blue is the next green for sustainable finance.
Blue bonds — debt that allows investors to finance water conservation efforts — are gaining traction.
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Lydia DePillis, The New York Times
“Natural asset companies” would put a market price on improving ecosystems, rather than on destroying them.
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Rashid Sumaila, The Conversation Fisheries & Aquaculture
Study finds that without nurturing ocean life, addressing climate change becomes an uphill battle.
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Scott Spillias, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Potential benefits of marine permaculture include ecosystem restoration, pollution reduction and empowerment of local communities.
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Emmy Hawker, ESG Investor Fisheries & Aquaculture
Sustainable aquaculture can serve climate objectives. Fish farms can be co-located with new renewable energy sites and farmed seafood is a comparatively low-carbon source of protein.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Energy Solutions
In the ongoing battle against climate change, the ocean’s significance is unparalleled.
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Tom Crowfoot, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Companies around the world are making the most of an unexpected tool in the world’s fight to tackle the climate crisis – seaweed.
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Economist Impact
Economist Impact's World Ocean Initiative has undertaken a vital research programme to provide a high-level estimate of the global value of ocean observation data for marine-centred climate change mitigation.
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NASA
PACE, the Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem satellite, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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IUCN
Global treaties lay out specific targets for protecting biodiversity, and the STAR metric enables countries and companies to measure how much their actions can help meet those targets.
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A new reef insurance policy will help with reattaching broken corals and debris clean-up; the insurance payouts will provide community assistance activities that will alleviate food and water security concerns caused by storm damage.
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UNC Energy Solutions
UNC Wilmington Blue Economy Index brings together academics, science and business to create a unique product that brings awareness to a global concern about ocean preservation and economic development.
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