by Economist Impact
Back to Blue is an initiative by Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation that aims to improve evidence-based approaches and solutions to the pressing issues faced by the ocean, and to restoring ocean health and promoting sustainability. The initiative will focus initially on aspects of the vexing challenge of pollution.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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November 12, 2023
<p>At our inaugural <a href="https://events.economist.com/global-plastics-summit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Global Plastics Summit</a> held on Oct 11-12th in Bangkok, Naka Kondo, the lead editor of Back to Blue Initiative spoke to Winnie Lau, project director, preventing ocean plastics at The Pew Charitable Trusts and Margaret Spring, chief conservation and science officer and Monterey Bay Aquarium. They discussed their impressions of the summit, and shared their recommendations and aspirations for the role of science and evidence in the treaty moving forward. </p><br><p>Follow the <a href="https://backtoblueinitiative.com/back-to-blue-podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Back to Blue series</a> for more podcast episodes, or visit <a href="https://backtoblueinitiative.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">backtoblueinitiative.com</a> for more content.</p><br><p>Back to Blue is an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
September 19, 2023
<p>Back to Blue’s lead editor, Naka Kondo speaks to Ben Alva, the founder of Azul Bio, a startup developing microbiome-based treatments and probiotics from nature that give ocean life</p><p>immunity to human impact, such as coral resilience. They are planning their first pilot in November.</p><br><p>Follow the <a href="https://backtoblueinitiative.com/back-to-blue-podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Back to Blue series</a> for more podcast episodes, or visit <a href="https://backtoblueinitiative.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">backtoblueinitiative.com</a> for more content.</p><br><p>Back to Blue is an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
August 21, 2023
<p>Charles Darwin once dismissed the ocean as a ‘tedious waste, a desert of water.’ Some of his contemporaries disagreed. The brave Challenger expedition of the 1870s set out to discover what lurked beneath, traversing over 100,000 kilometres and discovered 4,772 specimens, from sea snails to snake eels, discovered the deepest trench on earth, and toppled false assumptions about the lack of life under the waves. Over a century later, the Census of Marine Life picked up the baton. An eighty-country collaboration, with 2,700 scientists, the project identified another 6,000 species. Yet even these numbers are a literal drop in the ocean. </p><br><p>Oliver Steeds, Ocean Census director and chief executive of Nekton, a UK-based marine science and conservation institute, speaks to Naka Kondo, the lead editor of Back to Blue initiative about a new mission, the Ocean Census, launches this year with a far greater ambition: to find at least 100,000 new marine species in its first decade.</p><br><p>Follow the <a href="https://backtoblueinitiative.com/back-to-blue-podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Back to Blue series</a> for more podcast episodes, or visit <a href="https://backtoblueinitiative.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">backtoblueinitiative.com</a> for more content.</p><br><p>Back to Blue is an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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