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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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Guest Post – Melting Hope: Can We Answer the Glaciers’ SOS?

ESG Today

By: Hakan Bulgurlu – Chief Executive Officer, Beko Melting glaciers and ice sheets have been making headlines globally often for all the wrong reasons. They are increasingly viewed as assets: faster Arctic shipping lanes, access to untapped mineral resources, and far-reaching geopolitical ambitions. Used your dishwasher?

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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. We are all in harm’s way when it comes to the floods , fires and sweltering hea t brought by extreme climate change. While the die is cast on the direction of travel of our global economy, we can speed it up.

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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. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025.

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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 To achieve 1.5

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. Carbon is everywhere.

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Sustainable infrastructure investments can aid the post-COVID recovery

GreenBiz

The economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments around the world to come up with policies for stimulating the global economy. Many are considering a tried-and-true method to boost economies in the short term and provide wide societal benefits in the long term: infrastructure investment.

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