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How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change

GreenBiz

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. It’s also possible that market signals could drive many of these notions forward without policy action. "We

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Top 8 Sustainable Fishing Practices: Small Business Sustainability Guide

Green Business Bureau

Today’s common fishing practices are unsustainable and with the number of seafood eaters growing across the world, our seafood supply is readily depleting. This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Ban Overfishing Endangered Species.

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Norway Farmed Salmon Industry Accused of “Food Colonialism” in New Report

DeSmogBlog

Published by food and farming campaign group Feedback Global, the research states that major farmed fish and aquafeed producers – including European transnational companies Mowi , BioMar, Cargill, and Skretting – are between them extracting nearly two million tonnes of whole, wild fish annually from the world’s oceans, according to 2020 data.

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Is Fish-Free February set to become the new Veganuary?

Business Green

From a small base of just 3,300 participants in the first year, signatories to the campaign have doubled every year to top more than 300,000 in 2020, helped in no small part by Greggs' now famous vegan sausage roll. There's certainly a strong environmental argument for reducing the amount of seafood consumed globally.

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Ocean-dumping for Fukushima wastewater: Japan’s complex decision remains contentious

Envirotec Magazine

These were presented in an October 2020 report , Stemming the Tide 2020: The reality of the Fukushima radioactive water crisis. He described the discharge as “an unavoidable issue” in the process of decommissioning the plant.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Dubbed the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting — Ecosystems Accounting (SEEA – EA), this method of measurement would fundamentally change economic and policy planning in countries that adopt it. New metrics, such as the ones proposed this week by the UN Statistical Commission that go beyond GDP to include natural capital.

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Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

DeSmogBlog

A Taipei District Court dismissed the lawsuit that same year, but Taiwan’s Supreme Court overturned the lower court’s decision in 2020 , allowing the case to proceed. In 2022, Vietnam’s seafood exports were valued at 11 billion USD. Like the nearby residents, the waters where the spill occurred haven’t fully recovered.

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