Martin Koehring - Global Sustainability and Ocean Expert | Charity Board Member | TEDx Speaker | I help create multi-stakeholder partnerships & impactful research on 🌏 Climate 🌏 Nature 🌏 Blue Economy

World Water Week: Scaling up and community building

It’s World Water Week this week, organised by SIWI – Stockholm International Water Institute. The Economist Group’s World Ocean Initiative is an official outreach partner of the week.

I participated in the Accelerator on Communication and Behaviour Change, aimed at highlighting levers that can speed up and intensify our impact. The panel discussion on “Scaling up and community building”, convened by Grundfos Foundation and SIWI, focuses on scaling up water-related campaigns and communication initiatives such as the World Ocean Initiative.

The session is introduced by Claire Reid, CEO at Reel Gardening. Moderated by Anders Sahlman, the panel also includes Pia Yasuko Rask (Grundfos Foundation), Zibusiso Ncube (Practical Action) and Fatou Jeng (Gambian Youth Climate Negotiator at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC).

View the session here:

More posts on the ocean economy:

How to take action against ocean pollution from wastewater and sewageApril 8, 2024
How to invest better in the blue economyMarch 26, 2024
Moderating 6 sessions at the World Ocean Summit in LisbonMarch 8, 2024
How could ocean innovation accelerate sustainable development by 2030?January 10, 2024
Diagnosing the aquaculture systemNovember 8, 2023

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I’m a global ocean, climate and sustainability expert with 20+ years of experience, including progressively more strategic and leadership responsibilities. My most recent roles include Global Director of Impact at the international sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future, Board Member at the New Economics Foundation (a think tank focusing on social, economic and environmental justice), Head of the World Ocean Initiative and Practice Lead (EMEA) for Sustainability, Climate Change and Natural Resources at Economist Impact (part of The Economist Group). My previous roles at The Economist Group include managing editor, global health lead and Europe editor at The Economist Intelligence Unit. I love to work with organisations that build a just, resilient and regenerative future for people and planet.

Over the years I have directed many sustainability-related research and thought-leadership projects with partners in business, government, academia and civil society, in areas such as food sustainability, a just energy transition and the role of business in society. I was also the editorial lead of the award-winning Sustainability Project.

As part of my wider engagement on sustainability, I am a trustee of the New Economics Foundation (a think tank focusing on social, economic and environmental justice). I sit on the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Inclusive Economies Advisory Group and the Sustainable Brands Turkey Global Advisory Board. I have also been a member of the Advisory Committee for the UN Environment Programme’s Global Environment Outlook for Business, a senior rapporteur at World Water Week, a faculty member in the Food & Sustainability Certificate Program provided by the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability and a judge at the Reuters Events Responsible Business Awards.

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