Portugal ranked 26th out of 66 reviews for “blue technology” to preserve oceans
Portugal is in 26th place among 66 countries in terms of how to protect its sea and the sustainability of the oceans, according to a “blue technology barometer” by the American university MIT.
At the top of the list is the Kingdom with an assessment of more than 7, a leader of 10, with 8 countries united in Massachusetts, with 6 countries scoring oceanic areas, families on January 10, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the parameters of marine environment, marine activity, technological innovation and regulatory policies.
The group in a sustainability distinction by Portugal is included, with a distinction, it is composed of 20 countries that propose “median scores” and a “global progress towards ocean sustainability” but with “great divergences” between scores of each pillar, that have different weights in the overall score.
In the MIT navy, Portugal ranks highest on activity (4) and lowest on regulatory policies (17). In technology, the pillar that is worth half of the final grade, Portugal has a proposed innovation of 25 and in ocean environment it reaches 30.
MIT the “performance of governments, countries and countries like Portugal to differences in care”
At the bottom of the list of 66 countries are the last nations that make “slow and uneven progress in protecting ocean sustainability, such as Russia, which comes in 31st, or Cameroon, which takes the place.
These are countries that “resources sometimes struggle with the challenge of opportunity, financially, they have economic resources for the conservation of the oceans and that generally do not invest or do not have efficient scientific resources” to bet on sustainable economic technology.
By “blue technology” is meant technologies of technological processes used in different contexts to “mitigate the effects of climate change or restore the health of marine ecosystems”.
“As water climate changes are based on rising water temperatures, rising sea levels and disturbances in salt concentration. Rising protein consumption is leading to unsustainable fishing and waste management failures that transport 150 million tons of plastic into the oceans.”
No technological breakthrough, MIT assessed the “development of ocean technologies of need in various areas” and that stand out as countries such as ‘shore’ renewable energy facilities, which include the United Navy’s largest installation of wind turbines in the world. , Hornsea 2, located on the east coast of Great Britain.
In another innovation parameter, South Korea leads by far, with 9,700 patents related to ocean sustainability registered, more than double the second country in this domain, the United States of America.
In the environmental aspect, the environmental impact of each in its maritime environment was evaluated, with the greenhouse effect coming from the country from the greenhouse and other activities, coastal fishing and the recycling of gases.
Australia is also the country best Denmark, oceanic and European countries as the selection of the most acute countries, Australia is also the country to choose the most acute environment.
Reducing the progress of demand in transportation, which has “environmental impacts” either from burning fuel fuel by dumping ballast water or cleaning hull is the focus of the only alternative marine fuels, indicates MIT, that “the real could come from radical alternatives such as nuclear or wind power.”
With regard to marine fisheries, it was mainly for the effort and activity to promote sustainable fishing and it is the maintenance of marine protected areas and it is the Dominican Republic (36) that shows the highest increase in this indicator (10) .
MIT cites United Nations figures that around 20 percent of global fishing is unregulated or illegal, representing between $10 and $23 billion in fish every year.
In the pillar of regulatory policies it was protected by the United Nations Convention on the First Sea and the place to which a recommendation of 10 arises.
Countries with scores are generally stronger policy assets that support blue technologies, decarbonization and marine conservation exercises, notes MIT.
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