A New Deal for the Ocean
2020-07-27,Blue paper co-lead authors Mark Swilling and Tanya Brodie Rudolph share insights from the Blue Paper 'The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions' in this op-ed published on Daily Maverick.
Blue paper co-lead authors Mark Swilling and Tanya Brodie Rudolph share insights from the Blue Paper 'The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions' in this op-ed published on Daily Maverick.
Blue Paper authors Eli Fenichel, Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Yale School of the Environment and Ben Milligan Scientia Fellow, University of New South Wales highlight the critical role of national accounting in achieving a sustainable ocean economy, featuring insights from the Blue Paper ‘National Accounting for the Ocean and the Ocean Economy’ in this WRI Insights blog, republished in
Special Report authors Mansi Konar, Helen Ding and Head of the Ocean Panel Secretariat, Kristian Teleki, WRI highlight four key ocean-based solutions that yield high returns in this WRI Insights blog, featuring insights from the Economic Analysis ‘A Sustainable Ocean Economy for 2050: Approximating Its Benefits and Costs'.
Lisa Levin, Peter Haugan, Ines Aguiar Branco and Katie Flanagan discuss how to ensure that the clean energy transition proceeds in a way that doesn’t come at the expense of the ocean.
Republished in the China Dialogue
WRI podcast featuring Peter Thomson, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean; Vidar Helgesen, Norway’s Ocean Panel Sherpa; Jane Lubchenco, Ocean Panel Expert Group co-chair; and Mary Ruckelshaus, Blue Paper author, on the transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy.
The Economist World Ocean Initiative features the Blue Paper 'The Ocean Genome: Conservation and the Fair, Equitable and Sustainable Use of Marine Genetic Resources’.
On World Ocean Day, Chile’s Sherpa Waldemar Coutts highlights the importance of the ocean in a post-pandemic recovery in this op-ed published on Pais Circular.
On World Ocean Day, Hans Jacob Frydenlund, Ambassador of Norway to India, and Ratan P Watal, Member Secretary, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, Government of India, highlight the need for concerted action to ensure a more sustainable and integrated approach to the ocean in this op-ed published on Hindustan Times.
On World Ocean Day, Benj Sykes and Stephen Bull, Co-Chairs of the Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition (OREAC), highlight ocean-based renewable energy – including offshore wind, tidal, wave and floating solar power – as the next transformative force to reshape our energy systems and power a green recovery in this op-ed published on Foresight. OREAC was formed in response to the 2019 call for ocean-based climate action by the Ocean Panel and represents ocean energy in the global dialogue on a sustainable ocean economy.
Triple Pundit features the Blue Paper 'Leveraging Multi-Target Strategies to Address Plastic Pollution in the Context of an Already Stressed Ocean'.