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

Moderating webinar on ocean innovation

Webinar: New frontiers in ocean innovation

For World Oceans Day I moderated a World Ocean Summit Insight Hour on ocean innovation. The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-30) has started. However, the UN Sustainable Development Goals on life below water (SDG14) remains the most underfunded goal. The ocean needs innovative, passionate leaders to drive the sustainable blue economy and ensure a healthy future. Scientists, academics, entrepreneurs and technology developers are pushing the frontiers of exploration and innovation to monitor ocean health, and counter the big challenges facing the ocean, including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

Economist Impact’s Ocean Changemakers Challenge showcases leading changemakers working to develop business solutions to ocean-related sustainability challenges. The competition, now in its third year, is aimed at early-career researchers and professionals.

In celebration of World Oceans Day, this session will highlight the experiences of past winners and mentors, and identify what this year’s judges are looking for as they select the 2022 changemakers. Speakers will demonstrate the impact of entrepreneurs on the restoration of ocean health and advancing a sustainable ocean economy, and the crucial role of tech and innovation in making tangible change.

• What does it take to be a great ocean entrepreneur?
• What are the key challenges of working in ocean tech and innovation, and what lessons can be shared?
• How can great business ideas for ocean sustainability be scaled up?
• Blue carbon, coastal resilience, ocean literacy and ocean cities will be high on the agenda for next year’s World Ocean Summit. What are the opportunities for innovation in these areas?

Watch on demand here

Speakers include:

Virginie De Visscher
Senior director of business development, economic sectors, business events,
Destination Canada

Casimir Morobé
Co-founder
Toqua

Steven Adler
Chief executive and founder
The Ocean Data Alliance

Esther Ngure
Technical advisor, mangrove markets
Blue Ventures

Martin Koehring
Head, World Ocean Initiative
Economist Impact

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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

Tags: Blue Economy innovation ocean

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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