Welcome to our September Newsletter.
Climate Week in NYC - Oceans at the table!
Climate Week was hectic as usual and packed with gatherings. We participated in as many as we could, including World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Meetings (SDIM) , Nasdaq & WSJ Custom Events’ second annual ESG Leadership Forum, and the UNGC Ocean Stewardship Coalition’s Ocean at UNGA 2022. Our overall feeling from these and other meetings: while we always strive for more, oceans had a tangible, vibrant presence during Climate Week, with substantive engagement and lots of new initiatives announced. A few highlights below, please click through to learn more:
Super Year for the Oceans? 🤞🤞🤞
At one meeting a notable participant expressed optimism that six global 2022 milestone events - past and future - held the collective potential to create the ocean “super year” we all hope for. Here they are, please click through to read more about each:
- UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5): Resolution to End Plastic Pollution, Nairobi, March
- UN Ocean Conference. 2022: “New Wave of Ocean Action”, Lisbon, June
- World Trade Organization (WTO): Agreement on Fisheries, Geneva, June
- High Seas Treaty Negotiations: Meaningful progress and agreement to reconvene, New York City, August
- UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP 27): Acceleration of global climate efforts, Sharm El Sheikh, November
- UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15): Seeking landmark agreement, Montreal, December
There are numerous other conferences and programs scheduled for 2022 – please see some highlights below and visit our calendar. Investable Oceans will be presenting at several of them, including October’s Economist Impact’s World Ocean Tech and Innovation Summit in Halifax and the World Ocean Council’s BlueFin22 event.
Sustainable Ocean Investing Goes Mainstream
The World Economic Forum recently posted Ted’s article, Sustainable ocean investing goes mainstream, as part of its Sustainable Development Impact Meetings. The bottom line: market-based sustainable ocean investing is growing across all sectors and asset classes of the blue economy. The post also provides an overview of innovative research and frameworks that are laying the foundation for science based, data-driven sustainable ocean investing.
The ocean investment landscape is rapidly evolving, so we’ll be providing updates and deeper dives on these topics on LinkedIn going forward. We invite you to join us on this journey!
Keep reading, lots more below!
As usual, we feature a sampling of our website content below, including deep dives, innovations, books and cool tools. And lots more on the Investable Oceans site. One note: to celebrate autumn, our landing page features a new video of a turtle hatchling making his way into the ocean for the first time, courtesy of our own Morgan Bennett-Smith. Sincere thanks to SeaLegacy and Only One for letting us display Paul Nicklen’s beautiful kelp forest imagery up to now.
We thank you for your support, as always!
The Investable Oceans Team
