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July 22, 2020
Leading experts discuss the opportunity for incorporating ocean accounts into national accounting frameworks.
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by Lisa Levin, Peter Haugan, Ines Aguiar Branco and Katie Flanagan - June 23, 2020Rapidly transitioning to a clean energy system is essential. Using deep-seabed mining to get there doesn’t have to be.
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by Nicholas Walton - June 18, 2020The ocean is often thought of as a victim, but building a sustainable ocean economy could allow for the ocean to become a solution. The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, which involves 14 world leaders, is working to achieve this new vision for the ocean.
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June 24, 2020
Leading experts discuss how ocean-based renewable energy could play a central role in the rapid decarbonisation of the energy system and which actions will enable this to be done without damaging deep ocean habitats or realising a sustainable ocean economy.
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July 02, 2020
As part of London Climate Action Week 2020 (LCAW2020), this event will look at role that ocean-based climate action can play in delivering the environmental, social, health and financial benefits we need to see as humanity emerges from the COVID-19 crisis.
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June 12, 2020
Key experts and leaders from the Ocean Panel will reflect on the road ahead for building a sustainable ocean economy and share key insights from the latest Blue Paper “The ocean transition: what to learn from systems transitions”.
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by Liz Hollaway, Jenna Jambeck, Ellie Moss and Brajesh Dubey - May 26, 2020Tackling the causes ocean pollution can have compounding effects. These seven solutions detail how to reduce plastic waste and other ocean pollution.
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by Kristian Teleki, Douglas McCauley and Gloria Fluxà Thienemann - May 20, 2020Like many sectors, COVID-19 has disrupted the "blue economy." Though left out of many recovery conversations, there is abundant potential to build back a stronger, more resilient ocean economy that will benefit the millions of people who rely on it.
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by Jan-Gunnar Winther, Minhan Dai, Eliza Northrop and Ines Aguiar Branco - May 19, 2020The global ocean is a busy, fragmented place that contributes $1.5 trillion in added economic value. Business as usual will not deliver the long-term ocean health and wealth we need. What's required is a balance between production and protection, people and ocean and an improved response to the needs of all ocean users.
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WRI is holding a press call for the media on Friday, May 22, with authors of a new blue paper commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, to preview the findings and hear about bold new integrated solutions to address the flow of all types of pollution into the ocean.
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May 27, 2020
Leading experts discuss leveraging multi-target strategies to address plastic pollution in the context of an already stressed Ocean.
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May 20, 2020
Leading experts address how an Integrated Ocean Management approach offers the tools to enable a more balanced approach to the use and conservation of ocean resources.
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by Ines Aguiar Branco, Lauren Thuringer, Colette Wabnitz, Rachel Wynberg, Henrik Österblom and Robert Blasiak - April 24, 2020Marine organisms and their genes are rich sources of antiviral compounds. But the ocean genome is at risk, and only some have access to its benefits.
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April 24, 2020
Leading experts discuss new analysis exploring the current understanding of the ocean’s genetic diversity and what’s needed to ensure the ocean genome remains a pillar of the sustainable ocean economy.
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by Hayden Higgins - February 19, 2020Jane Lubchenco is one of the world's foremost ocean ecologists. Formerly the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, she is now a co-chair of the expert group for the High Level Panel for the Sustainable Ocean Economy.
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by Nicola Frost, Tony Long, Stephanie Juwana and Mansi Konar - February 07, 2020Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) accounts for nearly 20% of the world's fish catch. A "trusted traveller" border control-like system for the seas could help curb illicit fishing.
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by Jim Leape, Mark Abbott, Annie Brett, Ines Aguiar Branco and Johannes Friedrich - January 23, 2020In this era of upheaval in the ocean, driven by climate change and other stressors, technological innovations offer a flood of new data and new capabilities for translating it into actionable information.
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by Sarah Parsons - January 15, 20202020 will inevitably be a turning point for the environment. Key decisions on climate change, the ocean and biodiversity will determine if it is a turning point for the better or for the worse.
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by Kelly Levin and Dennis Tirpak - January 13, 2020Climate scientists recently found that extreme heat is leading to more pre-term births, warming waters in New England are linked to a decline in fishermen, and unprecedented changes in the Arctic show the region is changing more quickly than anticipated. This post summarizes these and other studies published in December 2019.
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January 16, 2020
Please join us on for the U.S. launch of two new “Blue Papers” about the ocean’s relationship with humanity.