Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Mark J. Spalding, MDPI Shipping & Ports
This article examines the role of artificial intelligence in supporting maritime decarbonization across multiple domains: voyage optimization, wind-assisted propulsion management, vessel automation, port coordination, predictive maintenance, ship design optimization, and hull maintenance robotics.
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Michael Le Page, New Scientist
Pouring 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine removed up to 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without harming wildlife, according to the researchers behind an ocean alkalinity enhancement test.
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Hanna Gezelius, IntraFish Fisheries & Aquaculture
By not treating seafood as a partner, investors risk undermining the very goal the backers of the blue economy set out to achieve.
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Back to Blue, Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
Jeff Stoike, president of Blue Action and the accelerator’s chief strategy officer, speaks to us about the blue economy investment space and where Blue Action’s work fits in.
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Enes Tunagur & Jeslyn Lerh, Reuters Shipping & Ports
Shipping accounts for nearly 3% of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Chris Gorell Barnes, Economist Impact Fisheries & Aquaculture
At roughly 6%, fish currently accounts for only a small share of global protein intake, making blue foods a largely untapped realm of protein production and a logical next step.
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Karen Sack, Together for the Ocean
Financing a healthy ocean is essential to achieving 30x30. Karen Sack, Executive Director of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), explores how ocean finance can drive resilience, biodiversity, and a regenerative blue economy.
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Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, New York Times
Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to protect biodiversity in international waters by enabling conservation zones.
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Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor, et al,, Nature Energy Solutions
Offshore and coastal renewable energy could be a key contributor to energy sovereignty, decarbonization efforts, and co-benefits to other sectors of a Blue Economy.
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Johnny Sturgeon, Inside Climate News
Ignoring the blue economy has left a multi-trillion-dollar blind spot in climate finance, according to a study from Scripps Oceanography.
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Ocean 14 Capital Fisheries & Aquaculture
Despite a 4% rise in spending to €62.8 billion in 2024, challenges to the European fishery and aquaculture sector were driven by price increases rather than higher consumption, with at-home fresh fish consumption falling by 5% in Europe.
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Elaina Hancock, UConn Today Fisheries & Aquaculture
Despite common assumptions, seaweed farms really shine at removing and storing CO2.
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Robin Pomeroy, World Economic Forum
People alive today have a unique opportunity to safeguard the environment and humanity's future, says Sylvia Earle.
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Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Project Syndicate Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
At COP30, ocean-based solutions attracted significant attention and investment, but much more must be done to establish the governance structures required for safeguarding this critical planetary system.
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Janice Lim, The Business Times
The OceanX founder and co-CEO believes such investments might bring about outsize economic and environmental impact.
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Peter Thomson, Project Syndicate
Despite the global retreat from multilateralism, international efforts to protect the ocean gained momentum in 2025, leading to some landmark decisions.
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Alfredo Giron, et al., Mongabay
Marking the midway point in the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, 2025 was a key year for the ocean.
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Dr. Ian Ralby & Philippe Cousteau, Diplomatic Curier Fisheries & Aquaculture
Coral reefs provide critical coastal shields for hundreds of billions of dollars in coastal infrastructure. Designating coral reefs as critical infrastructure could save them, and make coastal societies more prosperous and resilient, write Dr. Ian Ralby and Philippe Cousteau.
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Katie Wood & John Lyons, World Resources Institute
Tom Pickerell, the global director of WRI's Ocean Program, answers six pivotal questions that highlight a year filled with global cooperation and crucial progress on a number of important issues.
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Peter Bryant & Sindre Østgård, Project Syndicate
In the face of escalating climate, geopolitical, and financial instability, investors are underestimating an asset offering outsize environmental, social, and financial returns. But taking advantage of the opportunities provided by the blue economy requires building the foundational architecture for ocean finance.
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