Deep Dives
Thought-provoking research providing extensive learning opportunities
Jonathan Mingle, Yale Environment 360 Energy Solutions
Ending the use of fossil fuels to heat homes and buildings is a key challenge for cities hoping to achieve net-zero emissions.
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Englert, D. et al., The World Bank Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Across the maritime industry, there is general agreement that shipping must undergo a rapid energy transition. This implies a shift from fossil bunker fuels, such as the predominant heavy fuel oil (HFO), to a new generation of alternative bunker fuels.
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Racine, P. et al., Marine Policy Fisheries & Aquaculture
Seaweed aquaculture is capable of removing large quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus from coastal ecosystems, yet seaweed has gained little traction for its potential role in targeted nutrient assimilation.
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Brad Sewell & Molly Masterton, NRDC Fisheries & Aquaculture
NRDC conducted a detailed review, including geospatial analysis and mapping, of how each of the eight federal regional management councils (councils) have implemented the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s requirement to designate and minimize harms from fishing to “essential fish habitat” or EFH.
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Franks, B. et al., Applied Ecology Fisheries & Aquaculture
The unprecedented growth of aquaculture involves well-documented environmental and public-health costs, but less is understood about global animal welfare risks.
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Lauren Sommer, NPR Fisheries & Aquaculture
They're purple, spiky and voracious, and just off the West Coast, there are more of them than you can count.
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Ocean Conservancy Plastics & Pollution
Volunteers removed 107,219 items of personal protective equipment (PPE) from beaches and waterways worldwide in second half of 2020.
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Ricart, A.M. et al., Global Change Biology
Global‐scale ocean acidification has spurred interest in the capacity of seagrass ecosystems to increase seawater pH within crucial shoreline habitats through photosynthetic activity.
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Peter Howard & Derek Sylvan, Institute for Policy Integrity Energy Solutions
Thousands of economists have spent years or decades studying the interaction between climate change and the economic systems that underlie modern life. The views of these experts can help clarify how climate change will likely affect our society and economy, and how policymakers should approach greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts.
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Naylor, R.L. et al., Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture
The sustainability of aquaculture has been debated intensely since 2000, when a review on the net contribution of aquaculture to world fish supplies was published in Nature. This paper reviews the developments in global aquaculture from 1997 to 2017, incorporating all industry sub-sectors and highlighting the integration of aquaculture in the global food system.
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Spijkers, J. et al., One Earth Fisheries & Aquaculture
Disruptive changes in our global ocean and fisheries have sparked warnings of an increase in fishery conflicts. However, such environmental changes have not yet been considered in tandem with other critical social, economic, and political trends for mapping out possible future trajectories for fishery conflict.
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IOC-UNESCO
A recent analysis prepared by IOC-UNESCO explores tangible ways in which linkages between the Ocean Decade, with its vision of the ‘science we need for the ocean we want’, and the Ocean Panel, with its aims of ‘safeguarding the long-term health and resilience of the ocean’, can be leveraged and optimized.
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Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M. et al., Nature
The future of the global ocean economy is currently envisioned as advancing towards a ‘blue economy’—socially equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically viable ocean industries. However, tensions exist within sustainable development approaches, arising from differing perspectives framed around natural capital or social equity.
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Roque, BM et al., PLoS ONE Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Livestock production, particularly ruminants, contributes to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. These emissions are estimated to be 7.1 Gt carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalents annually which accounts for approximately 14.5% of the global anthropogenic GHG emissions. The majority of GHG emissions from livestock production is in the form of methane (CH4), which is produced largely through enteric fermentation and to a lesser extent manure decomposition.
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Andrew Willner, Mongabay Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
Today, startup companies like Fair Transport (with its retrofitted wooden vessels Tres Hombres and Nordlys); modest sized proof-of-concept firms, with purpose-built vessels like Grain de Sail; and large cargo ship retrofits and purpose-built vessels like Neoline’s new large cargo vessels, are starting to address CO2 emissions.
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Tara Lohan, The Revelator Energy Solutions
Materials needed to make the batteries for electric cars and other clean technology is driving interest in deep-seabed mining, and scientists fear the cost to the ocean will be steep.
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Bonney, R. et al., BioScience Fisheries & Aquaculture Tourism
Increasing costs are challenging the capacity for resource management agencies to keep up with mounting needs for robust data about fish populations and their habitats.
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Heather Clancy, GreenBiz Energy Solutions
Given the devastating economic toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on women and girls, the imperative to mark International Women’s Day carries more weight than usual this year.
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Bhammar, H. et al., Sustainability Tourism
Tourism in protected areas was a fast-growing segment within the global travel and tourism industry prior to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. As a development pathway, tourism generated foreign exchange for countries endowed with natural assets (protected areas, pristine landscapes, forests, oceans, wildlife), contributed to conservation revenues, and provided local development benefits for communities.
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Planet Tracker Fisheries & Aquaculture
In this report, using an entire industry of a G7 country as a case study, Planet Tracker shows how the depletion of the natural world negatively impacts financials, and how improved sustainability could drive better financial performance. Analysts and portfolio managers must therefore understand and account for natural capital and its interplay with financial performance.
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