Our Mission
Ensuring long-term, sustainable use of the ocean.
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Did you know? Autonomous vehicles have been used to help discover what’s living on the deepest levels of the seabed.
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Wave energy: can ocean power solve the global energy crisis?
Wave energy is the most powerful but least developed renewable energy. If harnessed, it could meet much of the world’s electricity needs.
Nature and Net Zero
This report examines natural climate solutions (NCS), which use nature’s own capacity to absorb and store greenhouse gases to combat climate change.
Our Impact
Our Initiatives
Getting to Zero Coalition
This coalition’s ambition is to commercialize zero-emissions vessels operating along deep-sea trade routes by 2030.
Friends of Ocean Action
This is a unique, informal group of more than 70 leaders fast-tracking solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the ocean.
Global Plastic Action Partnership
If we do not take urgent, collective action there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by the year 2050.
Deep-Sea Minerals Dialogue
The world seeks minerals for industrial development, for economic growth and to drive the green transition. The deep-sea could help to provide some of these minerals, but should it?
Crowdsource Innovation
Urchinomics
Urchinomics restores kelp forests and creates rural job opportunities by paying fishers market rates to remove these valueless, overgrazing urchins.
Fishbee
A Community Supported Fishery Platform that delivers freshest and highest quality and sustainably caught seafood to customers via an app and an IoT network for electronic seafood traceability.
Coast 4C
Coast 4C aims to integrate the world's largest supply chain for regenerative seaweed, driving benefit for the 4Cs of community, conservation, commerce and climate.
ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries
ABALOBI is an African-based, fisher-driven social enterprise addressing inequality, lack of data, safety at sea, gender inequality, and limited market access within small-scale fisheries.
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We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make a positive change.
