Investing For Ocean Impact
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
3. Deep Sea Mining: The Growing Wave?
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A wave of action against deep sea mining is growing. In July 2024, the International Seabed Authority will meet for its 29th Session in Kingston, Ja...
2. Deep Sea Mining: Good or Bad Investment?
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why have some multinational companies pledged not to use minerals sourced from deep sea mining? Today several major companies such as Volvo, BMW, a...
1. What is Deep Sea Mining?
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is deep sea mining? And what should the world do about it? Welcome to a brand new miniseries exploring the facts and evidence around deep sea min...
10. Blue Finance on the International Agenda for Nature and Humanity
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This past year has been eventful for the ocean. Sustainable blue economy was a central theme for global conferences: the UN High Seas Treaty negotia...
9. Environmental Economic Accounts: Bookkeeping for the Ocean
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental economic accounting is a new process that promises to transform the way we look at biodiversity and ecosystems. It’s based on traditio...
8. Women’s Empowerment as a Key to Unlocking Ocean Finance
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Half of the world’s population is female. But on the financing side, men still tend to dominate the boardrooms. But for conservation projects on the...
7. Green-Grey Infrastructure: Coastal Development That Benefits The Environment
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Green-grey infrastructure is a fascinating new concept. It describes Nature-based Solutions like mangroves or coral reefs that can work as or alongsid...
6. The High Seas: The Last Frontier for Ocean Finance
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the High Seas. More than two hundred nautical miles beyond any coastline, these wild waters make up two thirds of the entire ocean and perf...
5. Are blue bonds the silver bullet for ocean conservation? Part II
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of our double feature on blue bonds. Last time we were introduced to blue bonds through the pioneering example of the Seychelles a fe...
4. Are blue bonds the silver bullet for ocean conservation? Part I
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are blue bonds? They're some of the biggest deals in ocean finance today - in some cases involving restructuring the debt of entire nations. But ...
3. Insights from the Boardroom: Two Investors on Nature-Based Solutions and Tech Investments
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this podcast we talk a lot about Nature-Based Solutions. But the devil is in the detail for actually implementing them in an investible way on the ...
2. Blended finance and super typhoons: A reality check from the Philippines
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When a deadly super typhoon hit the Philippines last year, it damaged thousands of local livelihoods and wiped out much of their seaweed production. B...
1. Why private finance for ocean conservation?
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to season 2! In the first episode, we’re going back to basics. Why should the private sector be involved in ocean finance in the first place...
BONUS: SDG 14 : Are we swimming or drowning?
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode ahead of the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, we’re looking at Sustainable Development Goal 14: to conserve and sustainably use the o...
10. Towards a new blue finance world
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Right now, the global thinking around financing ocean conservation is massively changing. Are we on the right path? And what does the future look like...
9. Centralised vs Decentralised? How to finance Nature-based Solutions
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From global trust funds to brand new decentralised approaches, what are the pros and cons of these approaches for building an investible pipeline for ...
8. How banks and insurance companies can help Nature-based Solutions
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Banks and insurance companies command vast amounts of money. When it comes to financing marine and coastal conservation and restoration, how can they ...
7. Local communities: what do they have to gain?
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Creating lasting change for coastal communities and engaging across stakeholder groups - including local governments – are both top of everyone&...
6. Monitoring, reporting, and verification
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When developing a coastal or marine Nature-based Solution, it’s not enough to just assume you’re having a positive impact. You also need t...
5. Infrastructure projects and the right enabling conditions
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Big problems require big solutions. We need to start integrating the conservation and restoration of nature into even the largest of development and i...
4.5 BONUS: A visit to a shrimp farm in Indonesia
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In rural Indonesia, a stunning Nature-based Solution is being tested: helping local shrimp farmers to replant mangroves around their ponds, increasing...
4. Becoming bankable: what impact investors expect
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do investors look for when they buy into Nature-based Solutions? In our previous episode we discussed the process of becoming bankable from the p...
3. Becoming bankable: project developers tell their stories
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The path from charity to company can seem daunting. But for ocean conservationists who want more than relying on sporadic grants and donations, there ...
2. Nature-based Solutions: investments for the planet
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nature-based Solutions are neither wind farms nor sustainable engineering. And they are more than your usual conservation efforts. Instead, they&rsquo...
1. A new future for ocean financing
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The oceans today face extraordinary threats. But the funding to conserve and restore them is currently extremely limited. We need to make a fundamenta...
Investing For Ocean Impact Trailer
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Earth is in trouble. But the ocean can help. When it comes to tackling climate change and the biodiversity crisis, the ocean and the world’s...