Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
John F. Kerry, Project Syndicate
Against a backdrop of global uncertainty and questions about whether multilateral processes can still deliver, the countries represented at the latest UN Ocean Conference were largely united on the need for a more ambitious response to the challenges facing our ocean.
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Reuters
The third U.N. Ocean Conference in France last week yielded a number of financial deals and money pledges to help protect the seas, although the gap between funding and the estimated annual need of $175 billion remains large.
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Simon Jessop, Virginia Furness and Kate Abnett, Reuters
A U.N. push for investment to protect the world's oceans yielded around $10 billion in deals at a conference last week, way below the estimated annual need as many investors seek clearer regulation on ocean management before committing funds.
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
A slew of global leaders met in the south of France to discuss the future of the oceans. There was ‘momentum’ and ‘enthusiasm’, but there were critical voices too.
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Audrey Tan, The Stratis TImes
Norway-based impact investment firm Katapult Ocean will launch a US$50 million (S$64.1 million) fund in Singapore in early 2026 to invest in start-ups that support ocean health in Asia, The Straits Times has learnt.
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Felicia Jackson, Forbes Fisheries & Aquaculture
Investors can’t manage what they can’t measure and in the $40 billion global tuna industry, they’re largely flying blind.
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Danielle Rossingh, Impact Investor Plastics & Pollution
Six public development banks from Europe and Asia launched the Clean Oceans Initiative 2.0 as the third United Nations Ocean Conference kicked off this week.
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Krystle Higgins, Impact Investor
The fund will invest in startups working to support the regeneration of ocean biodiversity and has secured backing from the European Investment Fund and a range of institutional investors.
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Gary Howard, Seatrade Maritime News Shipping & Ports
More owners and operators prioritising decarbonisation, setting goals, implementing strategies, and using biofuels, GCMD report finds.
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Jonathan Kelsey & Karen Sack, BusinessGreen
Ocean conservation is not a cost - is a hedge against global volatility and an investment in prosperity, write Bloomberg Ocean Fund's Jonathan Kelsey, and Karen Sack from the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance.
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Alexandra Talty, The Guardian
Investment is pouring into companies promising to geoengineer a rapid change in the pH of our waters – but critics are concerned at the speed at which unproven methods are being adopted.
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The Guardian
In seas around the world pH levels are falling – and scientists are increasingly frustrated that the problem is not being taken seriously enough.
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High Seas Alliance
Nice, 9 June 2025, Today at the 3rd UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France, High Seas Alliance congratulates progress on the historic number of ratifications for the High Seas Treaty that have just been deposited, bringing the Treaty much closer to the critical threshold of 60 ratifications needed for its entry into force.
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Simon Mundy, Financial Times
A guide to the asset class slowly gaining favour among institutions.
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Rob Kaplan, Forbes Plastics & Pollution
The world is finally catching up to a simple fact: you cannot solve the ocean plastics crisis in the ocean alone. You need to solve it on land too.
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Michael Holder, BusinessGreen
Prince William's climate and environmental solutions prize teams up with investors to ramp up support for ocean-focused innovations.
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Tom Pickerell, World Resources Institute
It’s the ocean’s criticality that brings world leaders together for the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France from June 9th-13th.
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Opinion Contributor, Bangor Daily News
From Eastport to Biddeford, a new kind of farming is transforming Maine’s working waterfronts.
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UN Global Compact/PR Newswire
Linking ocean health to prosperity, this new framework sets guidance to align financial flows and business practices with the transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy worth $US 5.5 trillion by 2050.
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Eric Priante Martin, TradeWinds News Shipping & Ports
Decarbonisation tech needs fit-for-purpose capital, S2G leader says.
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