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The first round of University-Wide Collaboration Grants on Climate Change will fund eight Duke University faculty teams to lay the groundwork for new research on climate change and its impacts. The teams will investigate topics including planetary engineering, climate justice, low-carbon heating and cooling methods, lithium mining, agricultural histories, coastal resilience, and the impacts of extreme weather on forest ecosystems.
A relatively small cohort of companies generates more than half the annual revenues in the ocean economy, according to new data.
Dubbed the “Ocean 100,” these transnational companies collectively earned $1.1 trillion in revenues in 2018, according to the report in
That sum represents about 60% of total revenues from ocean-based economic activity in 2018, the most recent data available. If the group were a country, its gross domestic product would roughly equal that of Mexico, the researchers note.
The report offers new implications for the sustainability of the world’s oceans and the industries that depend on them.
“Oceans will be increasingly central to the global economy in the 21st century,” says coauthor Dan Vermeer, executive director of the Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment (EDGE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.