Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Ocean 14 Capital
A ‘new era for climate finance’ was signalled at COP29, which saw a $300 billion annual finance target by levying 5% on carbon trades as a way to unlock private sector funding by 2025.
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Joseph Appiott, World Economic Forum
This October, the global community met in Cali, Colombia, at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16).
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Jennifer Marston, AFN Fisheries & Aquaculture
VC investment into aquaculture startups broke records last year, according to new data from PitchBook that highlights $1 billion invested in the sector in 2023.
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian Plastics & Pollution
Countries must curb production now and tackle plastic’s full life cycle, says Norwegian minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of key UN talks this week.
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Rachel Winters, The Nature Conservancy
The Bahamas Debt Conversion Project for Marine Conservation expected to generate an estimated USD 124 million for nature & climate over next 15 years.
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Take the quiz to test your knowledge about one of the top threats to the world’s ocean.
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Virginia Furness, Reuters
The Bahamas has unlocked more than $120 million to fund the conservation and management of its oceans and mangroves with a debt swap financed by Standard Chartered and backed by the private sector.
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Angelique Pouponneau, Jessica Bridgland & Arlette Schramm, GOAP
This article examines the current state of sustainable blue economy investment, its potential benefits, and the roles various stakeholders can play in its development.
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Poppy Russell, Counteract
As investors committed to catalysing the carbon removal industry, we approach ocean-based solutions with a careful balance.
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Rob Fletcher, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Tilapia farming in sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing incomparable growth rates, and experts expect these to continue apace, as it bids to finally fulfil its aquaculture potential.
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Ocean & Climate Platform
Last year, COP28 concluded the first-ever Global Stocktake – a two-year process designed to assess progress made by the international community towards achieving the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Jean-Christophe Vandevelde & Daniel Steadman, Pew
Declines in fish and seabird populations point to need for ecosystem-based approach.
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The Fish Site
The UC Berkeley Energy and Biosciences Institute (EBI) has secured funding totalling almost $13 million to establish a centre to progress the use of macroalgae in the global economy.
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PR Newswire
Rumah Foundation, Oceankind and Asia Community Foundation are proud to announce the launch of the 30x30 Southeast Asia Ocean Fund at the 16th UN Conference of the Parties summit (COP16) in Colombia.
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The Maritime Executive Energy Solutions
UMass Clean Energy Extension director and professor Dwayne Breger at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been selected to receive $147,555 in grant funding to support the education of 13 scholars from diverse backgrounds at the UMass Clean Energy Extension’s (CEE) Offshore Wind Professional Certificate Program.
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Klaus Schwab & Ray Dalio, Time
If there's one certain thing in these turbulent times, it is that the years ahead will be unlike any others most people have experienced in their lifetimes.
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Tony Long, World Economic Forum
The Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor, or CMAR, was set up by four Latin American countries to safeguard their marine protected areas.
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Peter Thomsen & Alfredo Giron, World Economic Forum
Ocean issues have become increasingly visible in policy, business and the wider public psyche but Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 remains the least funded SDG.
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Katherine Donlevy, New York Post Plastics & Pollution
Looks like Queens is turning into the oysters’ Rockefeller Center.
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Donna Ferguson, The Guardian
Newly ‘discovered’ underwater topographical features are paving the way for nation states to exploit previously untouched marine resources.
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