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5 Ways to Build an Equitable Ocean Economy

  • Equity & Governance
  • sustainable development goals
  • Economics
  • Business
  • Ocean
Traditional triangle-net fishing off the coast of Taiwan
  • Equity & Governance
  • sustainable development goals
  • Economics
  • Business
  • Ocean
Initiatives

Systems Change Lab

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4 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution

  • Business
  • circular economy
  • coronavirus
  • waste
  • Ocean
  • pollution
  • regulation
Plastic waits for recycling landfill in the Philippines.
  • Business
  • circular economy
  • coronavirus
  • waste
  • Ocean
  • pollution
  • regulation
Insights

5 Pillars of a New Ocean Agenda

  • Economics
  • climate change
  • Ocean
Offshore wind turbines
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • Ocean
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: Funding Climate Goals: 3 Lessons from Fiji

  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Economics
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Ocean
A fisherman on the beach in Fiji, handling his fishing net.
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Economics
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Ocean
Insights

Using the Ocean As a Tool for Global Economic Recovery

  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • aquaculture
  • Ocean
  • renewable energy
  • restoration
  • wastewater
Coastal communities, which heavily rely on the ocean economy, are among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • aquaculture
  • Ocean
  • renewable energy
  • restoration
  • wastewater
Insights
Seaweed harvest in Japan
  • Economics
  • Ocean
Insights

4 Sustainable Ocean Strategies that Yield Economic Benefits

  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • restoration
Restoring mangroves in Thailand
  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • restoration
Insights

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

  • Climate Resilience
  • podcasts
  • Economics
  • Ocean
A cluster of coral in the ocean.
  • Climate Resilience
  • podcasts
  • Economics
  • Ocean
Insights

8 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in the New Make-or-Break Decade

  • stories to watch
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Ocean
climate march
  • stories to watch
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Ocean
Insights

Plastic Is Your Frenemy

  • Economics
  • Ocean
Plastic litter along Singapore’s East Coast Parkway
  • Economics
  • Ocean
Insights

Banning Straws and Bags Won’t Solve our Plastic Problem

  • Business
  • circular economy
  • Sustainable Development Goal 14
  • Ocean
  • pollution
Plastic waste on a beach
  • Business
  • circular economy
  • Sustainable Development Goal 14
  • Ocean
  • pollution
Insights

Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
Videos

Careers at WRI

  • Forests
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Ocean
  • Business
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Ocean
  • Business
  • Equity & Governance
Insights

Making Economic Valuation Count for Coastal Ecosystems in the Caribbean

  • Freshwater
  • coral reefs
  • natural infrastructure
  • Economics
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
People and economies across the Caribbean are dependent on coastal ecosystems—including coral reefs, mangroves, and beaches. These ecosystems provide critical habitat to commercial fisheries, attract tourists from around the world, and protect coastal communities and infrastructure. Photo Credit: Katina Rogers
  • Freshwater
  • coral reefs
  • natural infrastructure
  • Economics
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
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