The sea plays an important role in the world economy. But this is threatened by climate change and excessive study. Can the blue economy help?
Throughout Europe, seafood provides the means of transporting energy and materials.
The sea -related activities were created 624,000 million euros In revenue and in 2021, the European Union provided employment to 3.6 million people.
This part of the economy is called the “blue economy”, which includes a series of sectors, including marine transport, tourism, fishing and fisheries, biotechnology and research, resources extraction and renewable energies.
But many of these industries produce many emissions and are harmful to the environment. For example, maritime transport is responsible 3% to 4% of the total emissions of the EU In 2019. Without an important change in emitting, this number is expected to increase from at least 90% to 2050.
“The idea of a stable blue economy is to maintain a healthy sea and get a high production sea,” says John-Cunnar Vinder, a researcher and pro-owner of Norwegian University (UIT).
Many companies and actors of the blue economy are progressing in this direction. Efforts are multiplied to produce electricity, such as the construction of sea wind farms, the energy use of the strength of the waves, or the production of stable fodder for fishing fish from algae.
Expand the solutions, a stressful challenge
The most stable use of maritime resources contributes to the consistency in other sectors of the global economy, especially by solutions such as transforming to renewable energies Mariomotor energy And sea wind farms.
But these initiatives often face structural barriers to prevent their extension.
Although there are doubts about the environmental impact of the construction of sea wind farms, they are one of the ways to generate less electricity.
The Association, which promotes wind power in Europe, is now hindered by the interruptions in the distribution chain and the supply of parks to the electric phase.
“For example, Germany is the largest Marine Wind Park, which cannot be added to our figures because it is not yet connected to the network,” he explains.
Although battleman German wind farm is ready to generate electricity, there are currently no cables that connect to the land power phase. Tardy says this will take at least one year to happen.
Throughout Europe, expanding the electric phase to add clean solutions is a challenge.
How can these solutions grow by guaranteeing environmental responsibility simultaneously?
To find it, watch our illustration video above.
