Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
David Helvarg and Jason Scorse Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
The plan focuses on five key areas in need of government investment and innovative new policies: Coastal adaptation and financing, fisheries, aquaculture and biodiversity conservation, offshore renewable energy, and shipping, and ports and the maritime industries.
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Sandeep Bhattacharya & Sourajit Aiyer Energy Solutions
The coronavirus lockdown has accentuated the challenges by stalling the supply of panels imported from China and reducing the discoms’ motivation towards the rooftop solar segment and its net metering arrangements owing to the drop in demand from their staple industrial clients.
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Jennifer Browning & Gillian Lyons Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Undersea forests that sequester carbon, support fisheries, and protect shorelines are dying at alarming rates
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Jordan Davidson Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Researchers expect the rate of climate change in the deep parts of the oceans could accelerate to seven times their current rate after 2050, as The Guardian reported.
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Sandra Ponce de Leon Energy Solutions
More focus on blue carbon as a climate solution is needed especially as the world is losing coastal ecosystems at a 400% rate faster than rainforests.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
Government plans to stimulate economic recovery from the covid-19 pandemic should support growth and employment in the sustainable ocean economy.
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David Hume, World Ocean Initiative / The Economist Group Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports
Guest blogger David Hume, marine energy manager with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the US, considers the role of innovation hubs in nurturing blue economy businesses.
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Ali Trueworthy, The Liquid Grid Energy Solutions
Ali Trueworthy, a student at Oregon State University and researcher at PMEC, sat-down with the PMEC directors from each university, Dr. Brian Polagye, Dr. Jeremy Kasper, and Dr. Bryson Robertson, to get their thoughts on the future of the center, marine energy, and the blue economy.
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Rachel Cooper Energy Solutions
Norway has approved plans for Equinor’s floating wind farm.
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Joshua S. Hill Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Swiss-Swedish electronic manufacturing giant ABB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with French hydrogen technologies specialist Hydrogène de France to jointly manufacture megawatt-scale hydrogen fuel cell systems for ocean-going vessels.
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Paul Brown Energy Solutions
With green energy from wind and solar out-competing fossil fuels, governments now hope for another boost − blue energy from the oceans.
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Charlotte Middlehurst Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Marine operators are looking to clean up their act
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Annie Sneed, Scientific American Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
A U.S. agency is funding projects to help create a bioenergy industry based on macroalgae.
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Marineenergy.biz Energy Solutions
Global wave and tidal stream energy production has risen tenfold over the last decade, according to a report issued by Ocean Energy Systems (OES).
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Bill David Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Ammonia can be burnt for energy like fossil fuels but with no carbon emissions.
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Charlotte Edmond, World Economic Forum Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Spiky, voracious and multiplying at an alarming rate, sea urchins are destroying marine ecosystems around the world. The solution? Eat them, according to one company.
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James Richen, Responsible Investor Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
James Richens, editor of The Economist Group’s World Ocean Initiative, takes stock of Responsible Investor’s survey of investment risks and opportunities in the blue economy.
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Anders Holst Nymark Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Collaboration between governments and industry is crucial to make new green technologies competitive alternatives to fossil fuels.
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Johannah Christensen Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Emissions from shipping could grow by 250% by 2050 if no action is taken. Halving shipping’s emissions by 2050 could require $1.2 trillion in investment. But the scale of this challenge could be big enough to spur decarbonization across other sectors, too.
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Martin Koehring, The Economist Group- World Ocean Initiative Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports
Safeguarding and harnessing the ocean’s ability to provide for people and the planet is crucial for sustainable development, says Martin Koehring, head of the World Ocean Initiative.
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