Briefing: Why value the oceans by Pavan Sukhdev, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, GIST Advisory

Briefing: Why value the oceans by Pavan Sukhdev, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, GIST Advisory

Discussion: The state of the oceans

Discussion: The state of the oceans

Briefing: The state of the oceans by Stephen Palumbi, Director, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University

Briefing: The state of the oceans by Stephen Palumbi, Director, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University

Briefing: The state of the oceans by Zhou Mingjiang, Professor, Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Briefing: The state of the oceans by Zhou Mingjiang, Professor, Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Troubled seas: Oceans and oceans economy by Geoff Carr, Science Editor, The Economist

Troubled seas: Oceans and oceans economy by Geoff Carr, Science Editor, The Economist

Opening remark by Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs, Government of Singapore

Opening remark by Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs, Government of Singapore

Interview: why value the oceans?

Interview: why value the oceans?

World Oceans Summit 2012 Highlight

World Oceans Summit 2012 Highlight

Sylvia Earle at The Economist's World Oceans Summit 2012

Sylvia Earle, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society on World Oceans Summit

Global leaders gathering for blue sea thinking

What is the blue economy and how can we support its sustainable growth? The answer to these questions and more will be debated this week when global leaders— including government representatives from the US, EU and China—gather in Portugal for The Economist’s World Ocean Summit 2015.

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