Deep Dives
Thought-provoking research providing extensive learning opportunities
Conservation International Energy Solutions
To avoid the worst impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises and advance climate justice, we must invest in high-quality solutions, like blue carbon, that deliver outcomes for people, nature, and climate.
Read more → (15 minute read)
Anna Ducros and Paul Steele, UNDP Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
Biodiversity is degrading at alarming rates, and people living in biodiversity-rich areas often bear the heaviest costs of biodiversity loss and inequitable conservation efforts. Biodiversity credits, or ‘biocredits’, are emerging as a tradeable unit of biodiversity that can incentivise nature conservation and restoration to benefit marginalised groups living with nature.
Read more → (15 minute read)
Dan Romito, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance Energy Solutions
The Top 15 Anticipated ESG-Related Considerations That Will Influence Strategy in 2023.
Read more → (10 minute read)
Goldman Sachs Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new report by Goldman Sachs explores how biodiversity is the cornerstone around which most sustainability objectives sit and an area which corporations and investors will likely pay increased attention in order to meet sustainability and economic goals.
Read more → (13 minute read)
Nature.com Energy Solutions
The ocean has recently taken centre stage in the global geopolitical landscape. Despite rising challenges to the effectiveness of multilateralism, attention to ocean issues appears as an opportunity to co-create pathways to ocean sustainability at multiple levels.
Read more → (10 minute read)
World Economic Forum
The white paper provides context and potential implications for 10 of the draft GBF’s 22 proposed action targets that are most likely to result in changes to business strategies or operations across multiple sectors.
Read more → (30 minute read)
Startup Genome
This report looks at the current state of startup activity and related investment in the Blue Economy, with valuable information for founders, investors, and policymakers.
Read more → (15 minute read)
NOAA has published its first-ever 5-year aquaculture plan - guided by four key priorities - this week, in a bid to guide the agency’s work from 2023-2028.
Read more → (10 minute read)
Ocean Visions, MBARI
Answering critical questions about sinking macroalgae for carbon dioxide removal. A research framework to investigate sequestration efficacy and environmental impacts.
Read more → (10 minute read)
François Mosnier, Planet Tracker Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new report explores whether 100% sea-to-plate traceable seafood is a viable reality, finds that only 29% of global production is currently traceability-ready, outlines what it would take to achieve 100%, and what the implications would be for the industry at large.
Read more → (12 minute read)
Leonie Esters, Brian Ward, Frontiers for Young Minds
Results from a study during which ocean turbulence and atmospheric and oceanic CO2 were meassured with instruments installed on a ship.
Read more → (8 minute read)
Meg Wilcox, Civil Eats Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
Rather than relying solely on plastic equipment, shellfish and seaweed growers are embracing biodegradable alternatives.
Read more → (10 minute read)
Megan Howell, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
A kelp farmer's guide to blue carbon
Read more → (13 minute read)
Anthony de Freitas, Startup Savant Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
A roundup of 5 ocean startups transforming the future of marine conservation.
Read more → (15 minute read)
Elizabeth Fitt, Monga Bay Fisheries & Aquaculture
Monga Bay breaks down negotiation happenings for the high seas protection treaty
Read more → (10 minute read)
Ashley Hubbard, Impact Travel Alliance Tourism
Travel guide for sustainable ocean travel.
Read more → (23 minute read)
Ditria, E. et al., Frontiers in Marine Science Fisheries & Aquaculture
An automated approach facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) provides conservation managers with a toolkit that can help alleviate a number of these issues by reducing the monitoring bottlenecks and long-term costs of monitoring.
Read more → (more than 30 minute read)
Tensie Whelan, Harvard Business Review
A predictable backlash against ESG investing has arrived, with right wing politicians attacking ESG investors for promoting what they see as a “woke” agenda, and the SEC cracking down on “ESG-washing” by asset managers.
Read more → (11 minute read)
UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
This pilot edition of the State of the Ocean Report (StOR) was proposed and developed to demonstrate the feasibility of keeping the world up to date on the current state of the ocean.
Read more → (more than an hour read)
Dennis Fritsch, UNEP FI on Fisheries & Aquaculture
Investors need to understand the potential risks associated with ‘business as usual’ in the seafood sector and seek opportunities to play a role in supporting the transition towards sustainable seafood finance.
Read more → (more than an hour read)
