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Celebrating World Ocean Day

Energy and Cleantech Council

As reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate , “[t]he ocean is essential for all aspects of human well-being and livelihood” and ocean warming, acidification and sea level rise are impacting fisheries and food production and depleting key ecosystem services.

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

GreenBiz

Correcting these market failures in order to spur rapid innovation in the blue economy is one of OCAP’s top priorities. We're fighting to minimize the impacts of sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes, where NOAA just put out a report that hurricane intensity increased 8 percent a decade over the last 40 years.

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The State of Green Business report 2021

Sustainability Consulting

companies and 80% of major global companies will face moderate physical risk due to wildfires, water shortages, and sea level rises by 2050. And as a growing number of companies commit to recycled plastics targets and circular plastics aspirations, there is an opportunity and necessity in partnering with these communities.

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CX Landscape proposes futuristic coastal park in response to climate change

AGreenLiving

To address ocean waste, the designers have proposed using submarine robots to collect plastic ocean debris and repurposing the waste as raw material for 3D printing construction materials. The islands are also punctuated by bubble-like structures that house seawater purification and freshwater storage systems.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

As human society has continued to innovate exponentially, largely at the expense of the planet, scientists have hypothesized that we are beginning to enter a new epoch, or period of time in history, defined by human impact on the earth known as the Anthropocene.

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

AGreenLiving

Correcting these market failures in order to spur rapid innovation in the blue economy is one of OCAP’s top priorities. We’re fighting to minimize the impacts of sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes, where NOAA just put out a report that hurricane intensity increased 8 percent a decade over the last 40 years.

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'A race for the future': SailGP embeds new sustainability league into global sailing competition

Business Green

A new Impact League is set to run alongside the main sailing championship, with the eight international teams taking part in the competition scored across 10 key sustainability criteria, ranging from adoption of clean energy technologies and the elimination of single-use plastic, to diversity and inclusion and social advocacy, according to SailGP.