A Healthy Ocean Is A Healthy World

Oceans cover 70%+ of the earths surface, and contain 97% of the world’s water. They contain millions of species, feed billions of people, and enable trillions in commerce. Perhaps most importantly, they serve as the world’s largest carbon sink, absorbing carbon dioxide and serving as along term storage facility for this carbon…a critical element required for our climate to remain in a range hospitable to humans.

But oceans today are being asked to do too much. They are overfished, overpolluted, and are being asked to absorb too much carbon. If they continue on their current path, we believe it could lead to us losing one of the most important parts of our global ecosystem.

We translate this belief into an investment strategy by viewing our relationship with oceans as a choice. Is it a transitory asset that we exploit, extract and damage until no longer viable? Or it is a foundational piece of us thriving, and thus deserves to be treated as such? We choose the latter approach, which leads to the primary questions we ask when thinking about innovation in this sector:

• How do we define and measure a healthy ocean that is operating at optimal capacity?

• What and how much can be taken from the ocean without consequence?

• What needs to be returned to oceans?

• What negative items are we currently putting into oceans, and can those flows be redirected or turned into closed loop solutions?

• What effects does an unhealthy, overburdened ocean have on our climate and infrastructure, and what must be done to mitigate those effects?

Areas of Focus

• Biodiversity

• Climate Adaptation

• Coastal Resilience

• Desalinization

• Food Chain

• mCDR

• MRV

• Noise Pollution

• Plastics

• Pollution

• Waste Mgmt & Recycling

• Wastewater

• Water Quality