🌊 How do we connect ocean solutions to the capital they need? And who’s leading the charge?
Watch this video to see the key messages we're taking home from the Blue Economy & Finance Forum in Monaco 👀⬇️
#BlueEconomy #BEFF2025 #CoastalLeadership #ClimateFinance
Participants at #BEFF2025 discussed decarbonizing the shipping industry in the face of growing concerns for energy security, economic resilience, and global inequality
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#UNOC3 #Ocean #BlueEconomy
Breaking: Norway contributes additional € 6.8 million to @blueactionfund.org (total now at €17.7 million). Thanks Norway & @norad.no for spreading some #OceanOptimism at #UNOC3 & #BEFF2025
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I find 📸👇 very upsetting. How dare you to (almost) have a #malepanel. There are countless ♀️💪🏼 ocean champions, where did you hide them? #BEFF2025 #UNOC3
In closing remarks for #BEFF2025 HSH Prince Albert of #Monaco expressed gratitude for the quality of discussions, and stressed that solutions do exist, pointing to #SustainableFisheries, #aquaculture, and #biotechnology as keys to a new maritime #BlueEonomy.
In the #BEFF2025 panel on governance, Surangel Whipps, President of Palau 🇵🇼 highlighted that of all financial flows to the Pacific region, only 3% are from private sources, meaning that global private capital is missing some of the worlds most promising investment opportunities. #OceanAction
In Monaco for the Blue Economy and Finance Forum.
Ocean protection is climate action, economic strategy, and global responsibility. We're in this together.
#BEFF #BEFF2025 #UNOC3
“We are in dangerous waters."
Saturday at #BEFF2025, participants discussed the profound impacts that #ocean degradation has on the global economy and planetary wellbeing, and explore options for a regenerative blue economy
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#UNOC3 #BlueEconomy
In the #BEFF2025 panel Looking Forward, Rémy Rioux, Chairman of Finance in Common (FiCS), announced the launch of the FiCS Ocean Coalition to bring together multilateral, regional to national banks to increase ambition, increase accountability, support research and innovate financing in the #Ocean
In the #BEFF2025 panel on ports and #coastal infrastructure adaptation, one panelist stressed that investment can shape the #EnergyTransition as much as the technology, and underscored that they journey from research to commercialization is non-linear. #BlueEconomy #FinanceForOcean #OceanAction
During the #BEFF2025 panel on #shipping, panelists highlighted decarbonization of the sector as a prerequisite for a sustainable #BlueEconomy. To stay on the right track for this energy transition, one panelists highlighted the need for “tools, rules and fuels”. #FinanceForOcean #OceanAction
At #BEFF2025 ahead of a panel on shipping mitigation and decarbonisation, IMO Sec-Gen Arsenio Dominguez says “We’ve spent so much money on harming the #Ocean, it’s time to invest in cleaning it up and caring for it for future generations” #BlueEconomy #OceanAction
🌊 On #WorldOceansDay from Monaco: the ocean is our greatest climate ally—and our future.
At #BEFF2025, leaders unite to finance a thriving #BlueEconomy.
Let’s protect 30%, back communities, and invest in nature.
The tide is turning. Join us. 🌍💙
#OceanFinance #UNOC2025
1st day at #BEFF2025, with an impressive opening speech by @christinelagarde.bsky.social, many fruitful exchanges, solution hubs including our grantee @wildtrustssa.bsky.social. One takeaway: We need more investable ready projects! Happy that @blueactionfund.org is contributing to address this!
During the #BEFF2025 panel on fuelling #innovation and the #BlueTransition towards private investment, CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, announced that it will invest USD 2.5 billion to boost the sustainable #BlueEconomy and preserve the region’s #Oceans.
At the #BEFF2025 panel on uniting force & the power of blended finance, Sylvie Goulard w. International Advisory Panel on #Biodiversity Credits (IAPB), challenged participants to not “believe the nationalists” & choose to “abolish the borders in our heads” in order to act together for #MotherNature
Thanks @karensack.bsky.social from @orraanews.bsky.social for highlighting our work on big stage. #BEFF2025
Ahead of #BEFF2025 panel on financing a regenerative & sustainable #BlueEconomy, Costas Kadis, Commissioner for Fisheries & Oceans, EU: "Our message is clear: Europe is reliable, predictable & open for fair business to work together for innovative competitive regenerative & sustainable #BlueEconomy"
At #BEFF2025 panel on financing transboundary #conservation programmes, Sinikinesh Beyene Jimma w. @unep.org highlights the Global Fund for Coral Reefs as an example of #BlendedFinance that strengthens #resilience of #Coastal #ReefEcosystems, #LocalCommunities and economies. #FinanceForOcean
At #BEFF2025 Grethel Aguilar, Director General, IUCN called for realigning global finance with the realities facing communities on the ground for a healthy ocean. #FinanceForOcean #OceanAction #BlueEconomy
Christening RV Malizia Explorer
RV Malizia Explorer approaching Monaco Yacht Club.
What a start of the #BEFF2025 and #UNOC3: Christening of the new research sailship Malizia Explorer by „Her Deepness“ Sylvia Earle with HSH Prince Albert II & UN Ocean Envoy Peter Thomson.
Congratulations Boris Herrmann for amazing engagement & making this happen. 🌊💪
@awi.de @geomarkiel.bsky.social
During a #BEFF2025 panel discussion on catalyzing finance for #Ecosystem conservation impacts, José Soares dos Santos, Chairman and Founder @oceanoazul.bsky.social
introduced the concept of ‘earth equity’ to help finance a creative & responsible way to account for the value of nature #OceanAction
Ahead of a panel on investing for #OceanHealth, Christine Lagarde of @ecb.europa.eu, stressed that safeguarding the #Ocean and looking after the planet is a matter for all. She noted that “we are in dangerous waters” and called for #OceanAction, highlighting the immense cost of inaction. #BEFF2025
HSH Prince Albert of #Monaco opens #BEFF2025 by asserting that the ambition for the #BlueEconomy cannot take the form of retreat or inaction - doing so would be contrary to the needs of billions of people relying on the ocean for nutrition, mobility and health care. #FinanceforOcean
📍 The BEFF, organized by the Prince's Government, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco, with the support of France and Costa Rica, is a special event of the United Nations Ocean Conference, in support of SDG 14. #BEFF2025 #Monaco #BlueEconomy #UNOC
She highlights the importance of this forum for dialogue in order to develop concrete financing solutions, driven by a new generation of actors committed to the ocean, and to strengthen cross-border conservation initiatives through innovative tools. #BEFF2025 #Monaco #BlueEconomy #UNOC
Meet us in Nice! Our CEO and Director of Communications are attending #OOSC #BEFF2025 and #UNOC3 this June and would love to discuss cutting-edge technologies to monitor marine plastic pollution and biodiversity loss. Send a DM or email info@oceandiagnostics.com to meet up in France. 🌊
#SDG14 #30x30
📍 The BEFF, organized by the Prince's Government, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco, with the support of France and Costa Rica, is a special event of the United Nations Ocean Conference, in support of SDG 14.
#BEFF2025 #Monaco #BlueEconomy #UNOC
