Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Anna FitzGerald Guth, UC Santa Cruz Fisheries & Aquaculture
UC Santa Cruz, Pie Ranch, and the Amah Mutsun Land Trust are collaborating to show how leftover water from aquaculture can be used to grow plants sustainably, including native varieties used for restoration efforts.
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Anjanalakshmi G, Earth.org
Ocean accounts help integrate fragmented data about the ocean’s environment, economy and society to inform policy and support sustainable oceans. Earth.Org explores recent developments in this space.
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1000 Ocean Startups
At the 3rd UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3), 1000 Ocean Startups (1000OS) delivered a founder-forward,investment-ready innovation pavilion.
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Dr. M. Sanjayan, Economist Impact
Dr M. Sanjayan, CEO, Conservation International, discusses why finance must catch up with the ocean's true value.
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Oceanographic Magazine
Signify the dawning of a new era of transparency across the ocean; a new study combines satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to analyse and detect previously untraceable vessels, offering a new tool to enforce strict fishing bans in protected waters.
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Stephen Proctor, The Cool Down Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Startups showed off some pretty cool new uses for artificial intelligence at the VivaTech trade fair in Paris last month.
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Kelly Belcher & Dr. Sarah Kapnick, J. P. Morgan
In this Q&A between Kelly Belcher, head of Climate Tech at J.P. Morgan, and Dr. Sarah Kapnick, global head of Climate Advisory at J.P. Morgan, we uncover why investing in climate adaptation is emerging as a forward-thinking action to realizing returns.
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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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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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