INVESTABLE OCEANS
INVESTABLE OCEANS

The start of this summer has been an exciting and productive time for the blue economy community, including the Blue Economy & Finance Forum, World Oceans Week, and the UN Ocean Conference. Below are some highlights from the past few months, as well as a look ahead to Climate Week NYC this September.

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In a recent LinkedIn post, we covered our whirlwind trip through Switzerland (Villars Ocean Forum 2026), France (Institut Océanographique / Maison de l’Océan), and Monaco (A Day of Exploration at Yacht Club of Monaco). Given space limitations, we could only briefly mention some of the topics that were discussed. 

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At the end of 2025 we posted five blue economy highlights from the year on LinkedIn. To us, these represented tangible – and encouraging – signs of progress on our shared goal of creating a sustainable ocean economy, notwithstanding a variety of formidable headwinds.

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As expected, momentum from the Blue Economy Finance Forum in Monaco and the UN’s Third Ocean Conference in Nice carried into the second half of 2025. Despite geopolitical, funding, and other headwinds, the ocean investment community has demonstrated both determination and resilience in continuing to make progress on the goal of creating a sustainable blue economy for us all.

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June was an action-packed month for the ocean community, with major events including World Oceans Week, the Blue Economy Finance Forum (BEFF), the One Ocean Science Conference, and the 3rd UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3). We’re energized by the momentum these gatherings generated – and are excited to carry that energy into the second half of 2025.

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While sustainable ocean initiatives have faced a number of headwinds over the past months, there’s still momentum building across the ocean community and this spring and summer are shaping up to be an exciting time of action and collaboration.

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There’s a lot happening across politics, policy, funding and science that is creating headwinds for blue economy participants. While we’re operating in a period of considerable uncertainty, we do see consistent, energized commitment from those working in the oceans.

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This year was an incredibly active and productive one for the sustainable ocean finance community. For our year-end newsletter, we’d like to focus on a vital topic we first learned of while engaging with various United Nations entities: capacity building. 

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Climate Week NYC was bigger than ever, with over 900 events covering a broad spectrum of topics. We’re happy to report the oceans seemed to reach new levels of engagement and integration into mainstream climate dialogues.

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Following a marked increase in ocean related events at last year’s Climate Week NYC, we’re delighted that this year is likely to serve up an even broader array of blue gatherings. We chalk this up to an ever-increasing awareness of ocean-climate linkages, more investment opportunities and the chance to connect with geographically dispersed ocean actors in a single trip to New York City.

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In the past few years World Oceans Day has become a global phenomenon. Last year the event had a social media reach of 67+ million and over 100,000 people viewed the program. 

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At last month’s Economist’s World Ocean Summit in Lisbon, we participated in the panel announcing this year’s winners of the Ocean Changemakers Challenge. The three winners – rrreefs, SOS Carbon and Water Warriors – were all inspiring, and Ted is looking forward to serving as mentor for the coming year for rrreefs, a passionate Zurich-based startup rethinking, rebuilding and regenerating coral reefs with an innovative modular reef system.

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The Economist’s annual World Ocean Summit kicks off Monday in Lisbon. Ted was delighted to serve as a judge in this year’s Ocean Changemakers Challenge , and will continue on as a mentor for one of three winners along with Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer at Standard Chartered and Lubomila Jordanova, CEO of PlanA.

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We’ve commented in recent newsletters that oceans have received increasing visibility at global gatherings, most recently at COP28’s Ocean Pavilion. On first blush, that trend wasn’t as pronounced during Davos, with AI and elections dominating the headlines. On closer inspection though, there were numerous positive developments...

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As we enter 2024, we wanted to note a few 2023 highlights from our perspective. First and foremost, the oceans gained a lot of support this year – from donors, investors, NGOs and governments. While we all of course feel the imperative to do more faster, there are many examples of increasing interest in ocean stewardship and investment, including oceans gaining a prominent seat at the table at Climate Week and COP28.

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In our last newsletter we wrote about the oceans gaining visibility at September’s Climate Week NYC. We’re excited that similar progress seems likely at COP28. When over 70,000 people head to Dubai for the next two weeks to grapple with a broad range of climate issues, they’ll have many oceans options, both in the pass-required Blue Zone as well as at more broadly accessible side events.

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Building Sustainable Capital Markets for the Oceans. We used this phrase during Climate Week NYC and it seemed to strike a chord – so we’re making it our mission statement. The timing is not accidental: over the past months the blue economy dance card has filled in across the major asset classes of stocks, bonds, private equity and venture capital.

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A number of us have backgrounds in structured finance, so we’ve been excited for some time about the potential for blue bonds to help accelerate a sustainable ocean economy. In 2021 we co-hosted a panel of experts with DLA Piper to review the expanding array of offerings, which at the time included a pioneering Bank of China blue bond offering of nearly $1 billion.

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Recent global heat waves, floods and fires are ringing alarms louder than ever, and there have been numerous outstanding analyses and reflections on our current situation. Here are a few suggestions for pieces that provide a broader perspective. 

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World Oceans Day at the United Nations was another huge success, thanks to inspired curation by Oceanic Global and the UN team.

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