Blue Economy

Marine litter is a global problem that affects every ocean of the world. Enrol in this free online course on marine litter, available in 10 different languages, from UNEP, the Global Partnership on Marine Litter and Open Universiteit.

The ocean economy is currently at risk from multiple stressors, ranging from overextraction, direct habitat damage, pollution and climate change. Continuing with this ‘business-as-usual’ trajectory poses great risks to the health and integrity of the ocean and therefore to the world’s population. Ocean finance can play a critical role in changing this trajectory and helping to achieve a sustainable ocean economy (SOE).

The High-level panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy’s paper finds that many potential actions can be taken by the private and public sectors to remove existing barriers and open the pipeline to investment in a SOE.

A new Planet Tracker report urges investors to engage with seafood processors to adopt traceability solutions to improve sustainability, profit margins and risk exposure.

This report shows how seafood processing companies could become significantly more profitable and help increase the sustainability of the entire seafood industry by investing in traceability solutions (and notably the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability standards).