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Investor Report: Unlocking the Potential of the Blue Economy

BlueInvest

This report is an update that complements the first edition of the BlueInvest Investor Report released in 2023, which aimed to provide investors with market knowledge on the EU Blue Economy to support their investment decisions and targeted those actively engaged or interested in new prospects.

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New Analysis: Business Case for Deep Sea Mining – Highly Complicated and Widely Unproven – Doesn’t Add Up

The Ocean Foundation

Report finds extracting nodules lodged in the ocean floor is rife with technical challenges and overlooks rise of innovations that would eliminate need for deep-seabed mining; warns investors to think twice before backing unproven industry.

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Ocean Disclosure Initiative: Maritime Transportation Industry Review

One Ocean Foundation Shipping & Ports

The impact of maritime transportation on the ocean – analysis and solutions. 

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Setting Sail: Target setting in the Sustainable Blue Economy

UNEP FI

Through the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative’s Seafood Finance Working Group, co-convened with WWF, UNEP FI has developed this manual to support financial institutions in implementing the Turning the Tide and Diving Deep sector guidance, and setting targets for the Sustainable Blue Economy.

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Eight lessons learned from comparing ocean economy measurement strategies across countries

James Jolliffe and Claire Jolly, OECD

A new report compares the measurement strategies of eight OECD member countries using principles from the system of national accounts.

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Why Oceans and Marine Biodiversity Matter as Investment Issues

Andre Ranchin, Hymans Robertson Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution

A sustainable and growing blue economy can provide investment opportunities and a significant environmental return.

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New Record Ocean Temperatures and Related Climate Indicators in 2023

Lijing Cheng, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

The global physical and biogeochemical environment has been substantially altered in response to increased atmospheric greenhouse gases from human activities.

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Optimal fuel supply of green ammonia to decarbonise global shipping

Jasper Verschuur, et al., IOP Sciecne Shipping & Ports

A new study finds that the demand for green ammonia by 2050 could be three to four times the current (grey) ammonia production, requiring major new investments in infrastructure.

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SDG Stocktake: Through the Eyes of the Private Sector

United Nations Global Compact and Accenture

 Business is a key stakeholder in SDG success. This report offers an appraisal of private sector contributions to the SDGs so far—and outlines a clear pathway for private sector action over the next seven years.

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Satellite Mapping Reveals Extensive Industrial Activity at Sea

Fernando Paolo, et al., Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture

We combine satellite imagery, vessel GPS data and deep-learning models to map industrial vessel activities and offshore energy infrastructure across the world’s coastal waters from 2017 to 2021.

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Capturing the Blue Economy

One Ocean Foundation

This third edition of the report Business for Ocean Sustainability stands out for its innovative contributions across multiple areas. 

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Funding Trends 2023: Tracking the State of Global Ocean Funding

Our Shared Seas

The landscape-level report, Funding Trends 2023: Tracking the State of Global Ocean Funding, presents trends on global ocean funding over the past decade-plus. The primary focus is on mapping marine conservation funding from the philanthropic sector, with this report representing the most comprehensive global analysis on the topic.

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The Mangrove Breakthrough Financial Roadmap

Jennifer Ring, Marieta Stefanova, Raiditya Roebiono and Katherine Stodulka, Systemiq Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture

Unlocking investment at scale in critical coastal ecosystems.

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Navigating the Future: Bridging Shipping, Biodiversity, and Decarbonization

Shipping Pact For People and Nature (SPPaN) Shipping & Ports

The report emphasizes the need to address the triple planetary threats of pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss in the context of shipping solutions and impacts. 

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Generating Opportunities

Oceanographic Magazine

In this interview, Markus Müller, Deutsche Bank Private Bank's Chief Investment Officer ESG, explains why the term 'blue economy' is nothing new and how the financial sector can become fit for a nature-compliant future.

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From Risk to Reward: The Business Imperative to Finance Climate Adaptation and Resilience

BCG, Global Resilience Partnership & USAID Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports

From Risk to Reward: The Business Imperative to Finance Climate Adaptation and Resilience is a new study published by BCG in collaboration with the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that lays out the investment thesis for the private sector to finance climate adaptation and resilience.

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Coalition of Philanthropic Funders Unveil More Than $250 Million Ocean Resilience and Climate Alliance to Supercharge Ocean-Based Climate Solutions

Bloomberg Philantropies Energy Solutions

New Investments will advance ocean-climate and marine-based initiatives.

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Ocean Acidification: Time for Action

Back to Blue, Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation

The role of action plans in tackling a mounting ocean crisis. Event summary report from "Confronting the Ocean Acidification Crisis." 

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The potential of ports in developing Sustainable First Mover Initiatives

SMFI Shipping & Ports

As global policies to advance the decarbonisation of shipping are to be implemented in the coming years, ports will play a critically important role this transition.

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Let's Be Nice to the Ocean: Thinking Outside the Box before the Third UN Ocean Conference

Rémi Parmentier with Guillermo Ortuño, The Varda Group

Published less than two years before the 3rd UN High-Level Ocean Con- ference takes place in Nice, France, in June 2025, this paper is part of a series started in 2021 to trigger and encourage conversations about innovative ways to improve ocean protection and governance.

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