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UN Climate Change
UN Secretary-General António Guterres announces to convene a Climate Summit in September 2023
Maritime universities
Turkey with an extended coastline has 16 world class universities providing essential maritime disciplines which no doubt makes for significant inflow of remittances. Regional maritime countries need to invest in professional maritime merchant navy institutes to bolster their blue economy
Scent of Blood and Sharks
Research shows that in reality the Scent of Blood does not attract Sharks and its a myth. As explained by Cristina Zenato , a ocean and cave explorer and shark behaviourist " We are women, and we scuba dive. Our menstrual cycle should not be taboo but something we should be able to discuss and share information
Facilitating Seafarers
Istanbul Airport facilitates Seafarers by opening a separate Desk at Immigration as they are a significant source of foreign exchange & remittances
Lithium batteries impact on environment
The hype about renewables must cater to the safe and environmentally friendly disposal of millions of lithium batteries as dumping into or near inland waters leading to the coast may well become a serious issue leading to enhanced toxicity and a threat to marine habitats
Renewables
Renewables like wind and solar energy may not be the panacea for solving the worlds energy requirements. The global warming impact of renewables may only replace the heat sources generated from Fossil fuels. Besides energy from renewable sources is unreliable and weather dependent so how to ensure a non capital intensive and maintenance cost free
Aramco Carbon Capture Fund
Saudi Aramco management being amongst the founding members of the oil and gas climate initiative announced the establishment of a sustainability fund to the tune of $ 1.5 billion to combat solutions to climate challenges . Aramco entered into an agreement to put in place a carbon capture and storage hub to potentially store up
Fishing
China's lofted success in developing its economy has been correlated with its dramatic rise in education particularly at the secondary stage leading to the tertiary level. China's future in productivity is planned to encourage productivity as population declines. Highly populated maritime countries may consider following this economic model as fishing stocks deplete offshore
Maritime Logistics
The International Monetary Fund is cautioning of a catastrophe perhaps as severe as the food emergency of 2007-08. Concerns are mounting of the capacity to continue shipping grain out of the Black Sea region as the war escalates. Bloomberg reports that countries reliant on food imports are confronted with a the deleterious impact of climbing interest rates, a
NEOM
An 86 berth Marina has been designed at NEOM , KSA .Is this project an ambitious attempt at High end Tourism as the sustenance of of any new city is its demographic balance