WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate eight leaders to key Administration posts:
Pamela Melroy – Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Sarah Bianchi – Deputy United States Trade Representative
Jayme White – Deputy United States Trade Representative
Robin Ashton – Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency
Robert Bonnie – Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation, Department of Agriculture
Gwen Graham – Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs, Department of Education
Mara Karlin – Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, Department of Defense
Taryn Williams – Assistant Secretary of Disability and Employment Policy, Department of Labor
Pamela Melroy, Nominee for Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A relatively small cohort of companies generates more than half the annual revenues in the ocean economy, according to new data.
Dubbed the “Ocean 100,” these transnational companies collectively earned $1.1 trillion in revenues in 2018, according to the report in
That sum represents about 60% of total revenues from ocean-based economic activity in 2018, the most recent data available. If the group were a country, its gross domestic product would roughly equal that of Mexico, the researchers note.
The report offers new implications for the sustainability of the world’s oceans and the industries that depend on them.
“Oceans will be increasingly central to the global economy in the 21st century,” says coauthor Dan Vermeer, executive director of the Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment (EDGE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Small Group of Companies Controls 60% of Ocean Economy
A relatively small cohort of companies generates more than half the annual revenues in the ocean economy, according to new data from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Dubbed the “Ocean 100,” these transnational companies collectively earned $1.1 trillion in revenues in 2018, according to the report published in the journal Science Advances.
That sum represents about 60 percent of total revenues from ocean-based economic activity in 2018, the most recent data available. If the group were a country, its gross domestic product would roughly equal that of Mexico, the researchers noted.
The report offers new implications for the sustainability of the world’s oceans and the industries that depend on them.
According to recommendations in the Biden-Sanders unity task force document published last summer, “Democrats will partner with farmers to make the American agriculture sector the first in the world to achieve net-zero emissions, opening up new sources of income for farmers in the process. We will expand federal programs to help farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners pursue high-productivity, lower-emission, regenerative agricultural practices in order to help build more resilient, vibrant, local and regional food systems. We will substantially increase investments in voluntary conservation programs, which will generate economic and environmental benefits for farmers and their surrounding communities.”
Although his name does not appear in the proposals, this quote was probably written by Robert Bonnie. You may not recognize this name. A former administrator of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service under President Obama, said about Mr. Bonnie: “Obviously, climate will be a bi