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The Blue Wonder

3BL Media

3 Pressures on the ocean, including plastic waste, acidification, tourism, pollution from shipping, and overfishing are all increasing. Recent research shows that the investment benefits of ocean protection schemes, more sustainable shipping and other ocean dependent industries can be five times higher than the costs involved.

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Publisher's Note: Harnessing high winds in times of urgent action

Corporate Knights

A half hour later, a large sturdy Ontario Provincial Police ship motored into the bay to ferry us back to the mainland. This trend holds across sectors and regions and puts the sustainable economy on a path to dominate the global economy by the end of the next decade.

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How blue bonds could give a boost to ocean finance

Financial Times: Moral Money

This can cover projects from sustainable fishing to coral reef restoration, cleaner shipping practices and eco-friendly tourism. Danish offshore wind company Ørsted raised €100mn to finance projects that protect marine ecosystems and reduce pollution from shipping. per cent annual increase.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. The global shipping industry's decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. Faïg Abbasov, head of shipping at campaign group Transport & Environment, told BusinessGreen the proposal was "essentially an empty shell." "To Cecilia Keating.

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A new Swedish iron processing project could disrupt the global steel industry

GreenBiz

The hydrogen required will significantly contribute to bringing down the cost of this zero-carbon fuel, which in turn can help the economy to address emissions from other sectors such as aviation or shipping. New challenges, new opportunities. Change requires exploration of new concepts and solutions.

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Moving Freight in the Skies, With Plusses and Minuses

3BL Media

The global economy relies on air cargo,” notes Nehal Gautam in The STAT Trade Times, but “the relentless growth comes at a steep price.” The overall demand for green logistics could reach US$350 billion by 2030. In the skies above us millions of pounds of air freight are on the move today, to near and far destinations.

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

Although the financial services firm is far from being in the business of producing or using plastic products, last year it set a resolution to work to keep 50 million metric tons of plastic out of ecosystems by 2030. It’s a global economy-wide issue but the fact that it is everywhere should inspire us to action.

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