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OECD BrightTalk Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture GreenMoney Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
This report explores the growth prospects for the ocean economy, its capacity for future employment creation and innovation, and its role in addressing global challenges. Special attention is devoted to the emerging ocean-based industries.
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Principles for Responsible Investment, ShareAction / UN Global Compact Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
An introductory study of institutional investors' role in supporting the Sustainable Development Goals.
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United Nations Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
The first World Ocean Assessment (WOA) is a report on the state of the planet’s oceans. It is the product of the first cycle of the Regular Process for global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects, which was established after the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (Ref: page 2 of Summary). The Regular Process was set up to review the environmental, economic and social aspects of the world’s oceans.
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Mike Velings, Mission Blue II Fisheries & Aquaculture
We're headed towards a global food crisis: Nearly 3 billion people depend on the ocean for food, and at our current rate we already take more fish from the ocean than it can naturally replace. In this fact-packed, eye-opening talk, entrepreneur and conservationist Mike Velings proposes a solution: Aquaculture, or fish farming. "We must start using the ocean as farmers instead of hunters," he says, echoing Jacques Cousteau. "The day will come where people will demand farmed fish on their plates that's farmed well and farmed healthy -- and refuse anything less."
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Several authors, Coordinated by California Environmental Associates Fisheries & Aquaculture
A synthesis report on the economic and biological upside of fisheries reform to unlock the value of the oceans.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit, Ocean Prosperity Roadmap Fisheries & Aquaculture
The Coastal Governance Index is an analysis by the EIU with funding by the Packard Foundation of the status of coastal and fisheries governance to provide an international ranking of 20 ocean economies. The goal of the index is to provide governments and private investors a basis for understanding the status of management and regulations in key countries to enable better decision-making and encourage investment.
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Hosted by the Government of Sweden in cooperation with the Ocean Foundation Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
We have had brown growth, green growth, and now we are looking to blue growth.
The purpose of the roundtable was to identify ways to achieve closer collaboration and cooperation.
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Duarte, C.M. et al., Estuaries and Coasts Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Coastal ecosystems including coral reefs, mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, and salt marshes are being lost at alarming rates, and increased scientific understanding of causes has failed to stem these losses.
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