OCF - Ocean & Coastal Futures Ltd

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Our seas and coasts underpin health and prosperity, yet they face mounting threats such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and increasing demand for resources. To safeguard and regenerate marine ecosystems while ensuring social and economic resilience, we must bridge the gap between ocean sustainability and investing, and mobilise much-needed capital.

Ocean and Coastal Futures is bringing you our inaugural Blue Finance 2025, in addition to our wider portfolio of marine and coastal sector events.

Momentum for investing in nature, biodiversity and the ocean economy is growing, with public and private sector drivers requiring action to secure nature-positive outcomes.

However, progress is held back by key challenges, including:

• How to develop a shared understanding between the finance sector and ocean sustainability practitioners to maximise investment impact
• How to mobilise finance to deliver marine restoration and recovery at scale
• How to measure the impact of investment on ocean sustainability outcomes
• How can we amplify benefits for local people from investment and ensure they have a voice in decisions that impact the resources they rely on

“Blue Finance 2025: Investing in Ocean Sustainability” will bring together ocean sustainability and finance specialists to explore how capital can be directed toward sustainable investment. Through dialogue and collaboration between these communities, the conference will catalyse opportunities for financing solutions that protect and restore ocean health, generate equitable outcomes for communities, and ensure returns and impact to mobilise investment.

Key discussion themes will include:

• Developing a shared language across financial institutions and ocean sustainability practitioners to enhance collaboration and investor confidence.
• Connecting Finance and Ocean Sustainability
• Ensuring finance reaches the right places at the right time and at the scale needed to drive meaningful change.
• Measuring investment impact to guarantee sustainable outcomes for the environment, local communities, and the economy.
• Unlocking Capital to Scale Up Ocean Restoration
• Unlocking Funding Pathways for Resilient Coastal Communities

Bringing insightful speakers, panel sessions, and interactive workshops, the conference will set the pathway toward a future where financial flows support a thriving, sustainable ocean economy.

Join us as we seek to align financial opportunities with sustainable marine stewardship to meet our ambitious marine commitments and ensure a thriving and prosperous ocean for current and future generations.

Supported by Howell Marine Consulting and The Crown Estate