Oceans

Blue Oceans Partners: Harnessing the power of innovation to restore the health of our ocean

Date: October 16th 2019

Time: 12pm EDT

Addressing ocean challenges with traditional solutions, many of them infrastructure-based, requires trillions of dollars that seem overwhelmingly difficult to mobilize. One complementary approach is to support innovations that can change the rules of the game, transforming the very ways we produce, consume and distribute. Such innovations have the potential to deliver competitive market returns to investors. They can therefore mobilize large amounts of private capital to scale and address the crisis rapidly.

Christian Lim, co-founder of Blue Oceans Partners, will present examples of such innovations, ready to scale now, explaining how they can achieve system level impact for the ocean. Examples will include alternative feeds for aquaculture, sustainable aquaculture technologies, solutions to ghost nets, solutions to plastic microfiber pollution, technologies that enhance the efficiency of Marine Protected Areas, and innovations that enable the transition to a circular plastics economy. Christian will discuss Blue Ocean Partners, the investment platform he has launched to invest in innovations that help regenerate ocean health, including solutions to the challenges of overfishing and plastic pollution.

A recording of the webinar is available on our Youtube channel and the powerpoint presentation is available for download.