| by Maanvi Singh; rachel christopherson
If we care about a livable planet, commercial fisherman-turned-kelp farmer Bren Smith says we need a Blue New Deal. The Center for the Blue Economy and Blue Frontier could not agree more.
Many Maine communities have identified climate-related vulnerabilities to their homes, businesses and natural areas, due to the impacts of sea level rise and increases in severe storms. Finding funding for adaptation solutions is often a major barrier to addressing these concerns and moving forward.
| by Elli Kerlow
Blue Frontier Campaign, an ocean conservation and policy group, and the Center for the Blue Economy (CBE) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies have put forward an Ocean Climate Action Plan (aka “Blue New Deal”) as a way for the United States to respond to the threats documented in the IPCC report.
| by Rebecca Beitsch
Professor Jason Scorse is quoted as an early crafter of the Blue New Deal approach.
International Environmental Policy Professor Jason Scorse, director of the Middlebury Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy, writes in The Conversation that conservative governments’ support for reducing carbon emissions acts as an economic stimulator.
“We’re trying to step into this void because most of the climate plans are really focused on the big manufacturing and industrial emitters and the big terrestrial sources of pollution,” said Jason Scorse, director of the Center for the Blue Economy “an early crafter of the Blue New Deal approach”, tells The Hill.
The Middlebury Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy is sponsoring eleven students from the International Environmental Policy program on summer internships with top marine organizations from the Bay Area to the Galapagos.
