The aim was to initiate a new programme to increase and better coordinate the collecting of ocean and atmospheric information from ships and offshore structures, using existing ocean traffic.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, private-sector Chinese entrepreneurs could set up offshore ownership structures in Hong Kong, the U.S. or the Cayman Islands, that through a new Chinese subsidiary would acquire operating business assets in China.

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Hoffman, in this interview earlier in the said that he is an avid scuba diver and has found that some of the most amazing marine ecosystems in the world have established themselves around the steel structures of offshore oil rigs.

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