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What Role for Ocean-Based Renewable Energy and Deep-Seabed Minerals in a Sustainable Future?

• Peter M. Haugan and Lisa A. Levin • Energy Solutions

This paper examines how and to what degree energy from the ocean can contribute to the climate agenda and achieving SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), including identifying new solutions and their potential impact, as well as addressing related safety and environmental concerns.

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What Role for Ocean-Based Renewable Energy and Deep-Seabed Minerals in a Sustainable Future?

• Haugan, P.M., et al., Ocean Panel / WRI • Energy Solutions

This paper examines how and to what degree energy from the ocean can contribute to the climate agenda and achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), including identifying new solutions and their potential impact, as well as addressing related safety and environmental concerns.

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PODCAST/WEBINAR: Seeing the Ocean as a Solution, Not a Victim

• Nicholas Walton • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism

The ocean has great potential to become a solution, but only if there's the political will to build a strong ocean economy. 

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Deep-sea mining: An environmental solution or impending catastrophe?

• Elizabeth Claire Alberts • Energy Solutions • Plastics & Pollution

Deep-sea mining has not yet begun anywhere in the world, but many companies are already prospecting the seabed for nodules and other forms of minerals to assess their size, composition, distribution, and economic value.

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OECD Work In Support Of A Sustainable Ocean

• OECD • Energy Solutions

An analysis of the blue economy's potential between 2010 and 2030.

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Business for Ocean Sustainability

• One Ocean Foundation • BrightTalk • Energy Solutions • ESG • Fisheries & Aquaculture • GreenMoney • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism

The ocean matters and has widespread implications beyond the ocean itself.

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The Business Case for Marine Protection and Conservation

• Friends of Ocean Action Impact • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism

Friends of Ocean Action Impact Report: The Business Case for Marine Protection and Conservation

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The A-Z of the Energy Transition: Knowns and Unknowns

• World Economic Forum • Energy Solutions

In collaboration with the Global Future Council on Energy 2019-2020

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Increasing finance for a healthy ocean

• The Friends of Ocean Action • BrightTalk • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • GreenMoney • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism

The Ocean Finance Handbook, is a guide to support an increase in finance flowing towards the sustainable blue economy. The Handbook provides a key resource to enhance understanding of finance for a healthy ocean and generate conversations between financial institutions and marine-based businesses, conservation professionals and ocean project managers.

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Sailing on Solar: Could green ammonia decarbonise international shipping?

• Nick Ash & Tim Scarbrough, Environmental Defense Fund • Energy Solutions • Shipping & Ports

Green ammonia is a technically feasible solution for decarbonising international shipping. 

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Ammonia: zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store

• The Royal Society • Energy Solutions • Shipping & Ports

Ammonia is a suitable fuel for transport modes where large amounts of energy are required for extended periods of time and where batteries or direct electrical connection are not practical or cost effective. Examples include heavy good vehicles, trains, aviation and shipping.

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The Blue Economy and the United Nations’ sustainable development goals: Challenges and opportunities

• Lee, KH et al., Environment International • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism

The “Blue Economy (BE)” is an increasingly popular concept as a strategy for safeguarding the world’s oceans and water resources. It may emerge when economic activity is in balance with the long term capacity of ocean ecosystems to support the activity in a sustainable manner.

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GLOBAL ENERGY TRANSFORMATION: A Roadmap to 2050

• International Renewable Energy Agency • Energy Solutions

Increased use of renewable energy, combined with intensified electrification, could prove decisive for the world to meet key climate goals by 2050.

 

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The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change

• Ove Hoegh-Guldberg • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism

The HLP report offers the first comprehensive, integrated assessment of the mitigation potential of a suite of ocean-based activities: renewable energy, transport, food production, and ecosystems, and the potential future contribution from carbon storage if current concerns can be resolved.

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How do lithium-ion batteries work?

• Robert Masse • Energy Solutions

Lithium-ion batteries are at the center of two other technological revolutions with the power to transform society: the transition from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, and the shift from an electric grid powered by fossil fuels to renewable energy generators that store surplus electricity in batteries for future use. But how do they work?

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Blue Growth Potential to Mitigate Climate Change through Seaweed Offsetting

• Froehlich, H.E. et al., Current Biology • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Froehlich et al. find large-scale global mitigation through CO2eq sequestration unlikely but local to regional applications more feasible.

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Fourth National Climate Assessment

• Reidmiller, D.R. et al., U.S. Global Change Research Program • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism

Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States.

The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change and variability and its impacts across the United States, now and throughout this century.

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Rethinking Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean Economy

• OECD • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports

This new OECD report on the ocean economy emphasises the growing importance of science and technologies in improving the sustainable economic development of our seas and ocean.

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Global Goals, Ocean Opportunities

• United Nations Global Compact • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Elaborates the role of business in securing a healthy, productive and well-governed ocean.

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The Emissions Gap Report 2017 - Executive Summary

• Blok, K. et al., UN Environment Programme • Energy Solutions

This report, which is the eighth Emissions Gap Report produced by UN Environment, focuses on the “gap” between the emissions reductions necessary to achieve these agreed targets at lowest cost and the likely emissions reductions from full implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) forming the foundation of the Paris Agreement. It also explores potential for enhanced mitigation efforts in a number of key sectors, presenting cost-effective options for enhanced action to close the emissions gap.

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