Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch Plastics & Pollution
One of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic has been the introduction of a new type of plastic waste in the form of single-use personal protective equipment (PPE).
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Shem Oirere, Seafood Source Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture investment fund Aqua-Spark has announced plans to invest in catfish-producing companies in sub-Saharan-African markets as part of its strategy to support the growth of the region’s aquaculture industry.
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Bullock, S. et al., The Conversation Shipping & Ports
Progress on cutting emissions in shipping has been slow. In fact, emissions are no lower now than they were ten years ago.
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
Exceptional new findings show the huge potential of salt marshes for sucking up carbon. But is it too late for blue carbon to save the world?
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The Nature Conservancy
Innovative project is part of groundbreaking, global plan to fund ocean conservation while providing fiscal and economic benefits for coastal nations.
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Jankowska, E. et al., Race to Zero
Shifting the oceans dialogue from “victim” to “solution” is a game-changer.
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Marc Jones, Reuters
Belize provided a likely 'blue' model for conserving some of the world's most vulnerable marine ecosystems on Friday, swapping a promise to protect the northern Hemisphere's biggest barrier reef for much-needed debt relief.
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
Our incredible marine carbon sink is vanishing – and the only way to replace it is costly, labour-intense and takes years. Experts say it’s worth it.
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Paige Bennett, EcoWatch Energy Solutions
The aviation industry is responsible for about 2.5% of global emissions, and its climate impact is about 3.5% of all anthropogenic global warming.
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World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group
A guest blog by ocean leaders Peter Thomson (UN), Abdulla Naseer (Maldives) and Susan Lieberman (Wildlife Conservation Society).
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UNEP FI Energy Solutions
COP26 today focuses on accelerating the global transition to clean energy. The blue (ocean) economy offers many opportunities for private finance to lend and invest in a sustainable and nature-positive way.
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
With the ocean key to meeting 1.5C, all eyes are now on the vital but overlooked “big three” marine ecosystems – seagrass, mangroves and salt marshes.
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Damian Carrington, The Guardian Energy Solutions
A plan to coordinate the global introduction of clean technologies in order to rapidly drive down their cost has been agreed at the Cop26 summit by world leaders representing two-thirds of the world’s economy.
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Rob Fletcher, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
The offshore aquaculture sector has faced dogged criticism that undermines public support, but a new paper addresses many of these misconceptions and outlines the industry’s role in shoring up food security in the United States.
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Dan Collyns, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture
Four Pacific-facing Latin American nations have committed to joining their marine reserves to form one interconnected area, creating one of the world’s richest pockets of ocean biodiversity.
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Robin Pomeroy, World Economic Forum
Veteran environment journalist Alister Doyle shares stories from the UN conference halls to the remotest parts of the Earth facing global warming.
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Tiffany Duong, EcoWatch Plastics & Pollution
HuiZero, Hawaii's first zero-waste to-go container program, has just launched at participating restaurants across the island of Maui.
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Thomas Hickey, The Pew Charitable Trusts Energy Solutions
Protecting coastal wetlands is a ‘triple win’ for planet and people—and a model for future climate action.
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Rob Fletcher, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Europe’s growing band of seaweed producers could be generating revenues of €2.7 billion and providing 85,000 jobs by 2030.
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Lucas Kruitwagen, The Conversation Energy Solutions
We built a machine learning system to detect these facilities in satellite imagery and then deployed the system on over 550 terabytes of imagery using several human lifetimes of computing.
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