Sea Forward Fund’s Post

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Ocean is a big engine for economic growth for many people, hence probably a very profitable zone to invest it. Oracion can give us 1/5 of the solution for the climate crisis. It it gives us almost 3 trillion a year. This annual meeting has a theme of the ocean Nexus, which for me means the ocean is not only about the things that happen in the ocean, but it also has to do with food security, energy security, transportation, coastal infrastructure, tourism, gender equality and so many other things. I believe that policy and regulations are important drivers of change. Knowledge and education behavior change is another driver of change but to implement change is through businesses and given the scale and the pace of the problems, it needs to be through disruption and. Disruption in business world is brought through startups which leverage innovation. What we have to do now is to move from science and pilot projects to big projects. We have to scale up. We invest directly into nature positive enterprises that seek to sort of align economic growth with nature protection. To the role of thousands and stops to me is to make sure that we bring our energy together, put our strengths together to fight and tackle climate change. Supporting the solutions globally which can enable the transition to a regenerative blue economy. And then the other way we do this is really looking at the macro perspective and how we can scale an entire global ecosystem that is supporting not just the few dozen startups that one organization get support, but actually potentially 1000 ocean positive startups globally. We need to bring new money onto the table. Where is the majority of this money going to come from? From sustainable business opportunities such as the ones that the 1000 Ocean Startups community is surfacing, supporting and scaling at some point. I've been like, this isn't just a lot of network, we need to collaborate. This is a huge task. We're standing up on a so we need to find new solutions. So we need to collaborate on these solutions. So we're not as a fun, we're not big enough to to change the world, but together I think we can do quite a lot.