Sustainable Blue Economy
The Ocean as an Ally to Climate Solutions: Key Takeaways from Our #RememberTheOcean Campaign
For the past few months, we’ve amplified how the ocean offers some of the best solutions to climate change. Here are the key takeaways.
Ocean Life Can Help Mitigate Climate Change: New Study
United Arab Emirates in world’s first oceanic blue carbon audit and policy assessment.
New Tourism Action Coalition for a Sustainable Ocean Incites Action to Protect our Oceans and Support Coastal and Island Communities
As a side event of the Friends of Ocean Action/the World Economic Forum Virtual Ocean Dialogue, a coalition of tourism leaders launched the Tourism Action Coalition for a Sustainable Ocean (TACSO).
The Blue Wave
The Ocean Foundation and TMA BlueTech are calling for a U.S. Apollo-style “Blue Wave Mission,” focused on innovative technology and services to promote sustainable usage of the ocean and freshwater resources.
Climate Adaptation Plans to Sea Level Rise
The impending sea level rise is a pressing threat to low-lying coastal communities. Worldwide, over 20 million people live in low-level areas susceptible to present and predicted sea level rise …
Shareholder Engagement for Ocean Sustainability
The economic value of global ocean assets is around USD 24 trillion, making it the seventh-largest economy in the world.
Blue Economy
While the concept of the Blue Economy continues to change and adapt, economic development in the ocean and coastal communities can be designed to serve as a basis for sustainable development around the world.
The New Blue Economy: Taking care of the ocean to sustain us
[Adapted from a keynote given for “Oceans of Knowledge” at the Royal Institution hosted by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology on November 20, 2019] Investment in and …
Keynote at the Forum on Ocean, Seas, and Opportunities for Sustainable Development
KeynoteWednesday, 9 October 2019 Honorable Senators and distinguished guests.My name is Mark Spalding, and I am the President of The Ocean Foundation, and of the A.C. Fundación Mexicana para el Océano This is my 30th year of …
Africa Blue Economy Forum
Every time I am invited to speak, I have the opportunity to revisit my thinking about an aspect of improving the human relationship with the ocean. Likewise, as I confer …
The Green New Deal and the [New] Blue Economy
All of the talk about the “Green New Deal” and what that means, what it encompasses, and what it would take to achieve its vision, even if the specific strategies …
Blue Tech in San Diego
This past week I attended the 8th annual BlueTech & Blue Economy Summit and Tech Expo in San Diego, which is hosted by The Maritime Alliance (TMA). And, on Friday …
