Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy

Bluer horizons: Putting coastal communities before carbon markets

• Mark Hillsdon, Reuters • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Tourism

Several partnerships are looking to bring businesses and governments together to start protecting mangroves and other blue carbon at scale.

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Meet the startups disrupting the blue food sector

• The Fish Site • Fisheries & Aquaculture

An impressive number of startups are due to showcase their technologies at the forthcoming Blue Food Innovation Summit.

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Why Earth’s giant kelp forests are worth $500 billion a year

• Gemma Conroy, Nature • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Analysis estimates that kelp forests are at least three times more valuable for food and the planet than previously thought.

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Wind, wave, sun and more: could ocean-based power help alleviate a growing energy crisis?

• World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Experts at the 10th annual World Ocean Summit highlighted how blue-energy projects can be designed to support conservation, aquaculture and more.

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Why the UN High Seas Treaty is significant for the blue economy

• Kris Atkinson, Money Marketing • Fisheries & Aquaculture

After nearly two decades in the making, the newly agreed UN High Seas Treaty marks a major step forward for ocean preservation, aiming to mitigate the impact of climate change on marine biodiversity and ocean ecosystems.

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Blue nature-based solutions: a win for biodiversity, climate and community

• World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Experts at the 10th annual World Ocean Summit stressed the importance of co-creating solutions.

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Are blue carbon markets becoming mainstream?

• World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are powerful nature-based net-zero solutions.

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4 Way to Invest in a Sustainable 'Blue Economy'

• Institute for Sustainable Investing, Morgan Stanley • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Shipping & Ports • Tourism

Tackling climate change, protecting biodiversity and fostering inclusive economic growth will require more than $3 trillion of investments in the world’s oceans in the coming decades.

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Seaweed recycling startups get funded, as Sargassum bloom hits Florida

• Dan Primack, Axios • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Carbonwave, a Boston-based startup that "upcycles" Sargassum seaweed into biomaterials, raised $5 million in venture capital funding led by an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers.

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Native oyster reintroduction set to double biodiversity

• The Fish Site • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Project to reintroduce European native oysters unveils first predicted impact of species’ return and aims to improve water quality, enhance marine biodiversity and increase carbon storage in the Dornoch Firth over the next decade.

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4 ways to ensure the future of aquaculture is sustainable

• Karen Demavivas, World Economic Forum • Fisheries & Aquaculture

As our global population expands, so too does demand for nutritious and climate-friendly food.

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Winners Of The Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize Are All Using Seaweed

• Jeff Kart, Forbes • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution

Making bioplastics from seaweed is becoming fashionable. And that’s not a dig.

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Startup Says The Seaweed Blobbing Toward Florida Has A Silver Lining

• Harri Weber, Tech Crunch • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Recent sargassum surges are forcing folks to find creative ways to get rid of it, and already, possible applications run the gamut. Researchers and entrepreneurs aim to turn it into syrup, bricks and even jet fuel. As for Carbonwave, the Boston- and Puerto Rico–based startup is using it in fertilizer, cosmetics and even faux leather.

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Plant-based seafood and plastic-eating insects among EIT Food’s Marketed Innovation Prize winners

• Oliver Morrison, Food Navigator • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution

EIT Food, the world’s largest food innovation community, has announced the results of its Marketed Innovation Prize, designed to reward innovative food start-ups that have successfully brought products or services to market.

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Seaweed Is Having Its Moment in the Sun

• Somini Sengupta, The New York Times • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Seaweed has suddenly a hot global commodity, but can it survive climate change?

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Can seaweed save the world? Well it can certainly help in many ways

• Catriona Macleod, The Conversation • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Seaweed is increasingly seen as a solution to many of the world’s most pressing problems. Interest in farming seaweed has exploded.

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Why a new UN treaty to safeguard the “high seas” matters

• The Economist • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Long-neglected international waters will finally receive more protection.

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Umami Meats and Triplebar to collaborate on seafood cell lines

• The Fish Site • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Biotechnology firm Triplebar and cultivated seafood platform company Umami Meats are partnering to develop optimised cell lines for Japanese eel that can be used to produce cultivated seafood at scale.

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“World’s largest mass microalgae biomass production plant” set to open in Malaysia in April

• The Fish Site • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The Malaysian state of Sarawak is set to host Chitose Carbon Capture Central (C4), a firm that’s said to be the world’s largest mass microalgae biomass production facility, in April 2023.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

• Tim De Chant, TechCrunch • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports

For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors alike.

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