The Blue World Perspective 2021

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New Frontiers Ocean data to enable marine stewardship The growing recognition of the vast opportunities offered by ocean resources has prompted activities to best capture their value. The awareness that our ocean is currently under threat from climate change effects, such as the loss of marine biodiversity weakening ocean ecosystems, as well as other human activities like overfishing, has rightfully awakened us to the importance of deploying new solutions in a cautious and regenerative manner. Sector Contribution to the 2030 Transformation Outcomes Sustainable New Ocean Industries: Innovation and investments in new ocean industries have boosted environmentally responsible and inclusive economic growth. A Precautionary Approach to Seabed Mining: Sufficient knowledge and regulations are in place to ensure that any activity related to seabed mining is informed by science and ecologically sustainable.
Transforming current ideas for ocean resource utilization and protection into positive actions towards a sustainable ocean economy will require vast amounts of data. This creates a vast market potential for technology that enables the collection, sharing and processing of ocean data. New technology platforms collected more data on the oceans in 2018 than was collected during the entire twentieth century. The availability of systems and incentives for sharing and managing data can enable new business models to be deployed and scaled. Improving the infrastructure for sharing and managing ocean data could enable the data collection and analysis for ocean conservation with unprecedented ease as well as being crucial for making sound business decisions. Ocean data needs to be based upon continuous monitoring and compatible data sets, and it is clear that no single organization or government can acquire and interpret of the amount of data necessary to map global ocean ecosystems. Creating human and system capacity that can successfully manage the data for these complex systems will require the involvement of stakeholders across all ocean industries; this will contribute to a common understanding of how we can manage the ocean responsibly and sustainably, now and in the future. Ultimately, better ocean data will facilitate the safer deployment of solutions in offshore energy, shipping and aquaculture, and it will improve our ability to regenerate ecosystems in a way that is more resilient to climate change effects if not actively mitigating them. Startups within the following impact areas will make a positive contribution for the sector: • Solutions that contribute to ocean exploration through data collection • Robotics and unmanned vehicles that can enhance efforts to collect and process data • Data analytics to support stewardship, conservation and decision making in ocean industries 35
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