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...The Nature Conservancy, a non-profit organisation, which facilitated that transaction and others for Belize, Barbados and the Seychelles, has since said it will no longer use the “blue bond” label for such...
...Andrew Deutz, managing director for global policy and conservation finance at The Nature Conservancy, has heard this argument before. “Some companies get it,” he says....
...White said issuing the “blue bonds” — so called because they are ocean-themed and could be added to sustainable investing funds — had been far easier than long-running attempts to generate payments for the...
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...Its views span “from the Pacific Ocean out front, to the snow-capped mountains in the back”, says Tom, a fashion entrepreneur who recently launched the digital home furnishings platform Abask....
...The model is being copied in a deal with Barbados that re-engineers part of its sovereign debt to support ocean protection....
...This inaugural event (to be hosted annually) will see up to 20 crews rowing the 2,800-mile stretch of mid-Pacific ocean....
...“One of the challenges of managing tuna, is that they are highly migratory species,” said Mark Zimring, director of the Large-Scale Fisheries Program at The Nature Conservancy....
...Ocean conservation is crucial to the country’s economy, with 40 per cent of output coming directly or indirectly from tourism, and one in every 10 workers employed in the fishing sector....
...Then, in 2017 he moved into the conservation sector, first as innovation lead at The Nature Conservancy and now at Rainforest Alliance....
...Today, he is able to say: “We have had zero poaching, at least here, and I’d say for all the conservancies around us, for three or four years now”....
...The Nato strap in Econyl yarn, made from “regenerated nylon waste from landfills and oceans around the world”, now adorns the Superocean Heritage Chronograph 44 Ocean Conservancy limited edition (£4,880)...
...We are set to get through 129bn masks a month and 65bn pairs of disposable gloves, reckons Ocean Conservancy. Most disposable masks are made from polypropylene. They cannot be recycled conventionally....
...“Ocean governance is a mess,” says Janis Searles Jones, chief executive of the Ocean Conservancy, a US non-profit environmental group....
...“The real solution to this lies on land not in the ocean,” says George Leonard, chief scientist at the Ocean Conservancy, a Washington-based environmental group....
...Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam have been ranked by the Ocean Conservancy, a global environmental lobby, among the top five countries tossing plastic into the sea....
...Conservancy — were ending up in our seas, killing albatross chicks and entangling sea turtles....
...In the 2017 report, Ocean Conservancy found that “Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam dump more plastic into the oceans than the rest of the world combined.”...
...After commissioning research into investable strategies that might address the billions of tonnes of plastic waste polluting the oceans, for example, Encourage decided not to invest....
...The Seychelles has pledged to protect swaths of Indian Ocean coral reef surrounding the east African archipelago, nearly two years after a debt swap backed by environmentalist movie star Leonardo DiCaprio...
...Ocean Conservancy, an environmental group, published five ideas for making Arctic shipping safer....
...The 13-piece Alaria collection (below), which embraces Ms Hsu’s eco-friendly ethos, is inspired by the oceans, with 5 per cent of sales donated to the Nature Conservancy, an ecological charity....
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