This will mean profound changes in the nature of the blue economy, some of which are already underway. There are now more wind turbines than oil platforms in the North Sea.
The job market is undergoing diversification and new sectors are emerging beside traditional ones: there are now more people working in offshore renewable energy than fishers. Other developments are just around the corner. New processes, products and services are being developed and tested in laboratories as we speak. Start-ups, young and dynamic companies as well as established firms are keen to bring these to the market.
In a recent scan of the landscape in the European Union, we encountered more than 400 projects of varying maturity that gave us a glimpse of how the blue economy could look like in ten years’ time. We saw underwater kites, clothing made of marine litter, speedboats propelled by clean energy, feed for animals and veggie burgers for human consumption made of microalgae, new materials for repairing underwater pipes, submarine robots that can count and classify shoals of fish, and much more.
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