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Blue Finance Couple Donates $9 Million to New England Aquarium Lab to Support Sustainable Blue Economy Development French Low-Impact Shrimp Farm Company Lisaqua Raises €9 Million SeaCrete Raises €100,000 for Bio-based Ocean Concrete Substitute for Restoration,…
Couple Donates $9 Million to New England Aquarium Lab to Support Sustainable Blue Economy Development
Phil Schiller and Kim Gassett-Schiller have donated $9 million to The New England Aquarium to expand the institution’s work advising and partnering with corporations and ocean industries to…
French Low-Impact Shrimp Farm Company Lisaqua Raises €9 Million
France-based Lisaqua, which specializes in the production of shrimp with low environmental impact and without antibiotics has raised €9 million. The company plans to used the funds to develop an industrial low-impact shrimp farm with…
SeaCrete Raises €100,000 for Bio-based Ocean Concrete Substitute for Restoration, Biodiversity
Netherlands-based startup SeaCrete has raised €100,000 in pre-seed funding for ocean concrete substitute that can be used for oyster recovery, as well as potential coral outplanting, sea grass relocation…
SeaForester Raises $1.9 Million to Restore Native Kelp Forests in the Ocean
SeaForester, a Portugal and Norway-based company that helps replant and restore native kelp forests has raised $1.9 million. The company will use the funds to support the expansion of its restoration efforts and the…
Nova Scotia Sanctuary May Provide New Home for Some of the Beluga Whales Marineland Threatened to Euthanize
For months a horrifying saga has been unfolding in Canada. Ontario's Marineland closed in 2024 and had intended to send its remaining 30 beluga whales to an aquarium in China. When the…
Canada, Haida Nation Announce Marine Protected Area on Haida Gwaii Covering Nearly 30 Square Kilometers
The Haida Nation and Fisheries and Oceans Canada jointly announced the creation of two new marine refuges on Haida Gwaii that will protect multiple species of salmon, sea birds and their…
EU Approves Regulations to Reduce Pollution from Plastic Pellet Spills
The European Parliament has approved a regulation aimed to reduce pollution from the plastic pellets called nurdles that comprise the building blocks of most plastic products. The EU said that plastic pellet spills are the…
Checkmate Secures £750,000 Innovate UK Grant to Advance Wave Energy ‘Sea Snake’
Checkmate Flexible Engineering has secured a £750,000 grant from Innovate UK to accelerate development of its Lobe-Tendon Anaconda wave energy converter. The 18-month project is known as Môr Neidr (‘sea snake’ in…
EU Rejects Compromise Agreement on Sustainability Reporting
The European Parliament rejected a compromise agreement that would have reduced the EU’s sustainability reporting and due diligence regulations from those proposed by the Commission, but not as much as right-wing parties had proposed. The…
American Saltwater Guides Association Seeks Immediate Reduction in Allowable Catch of “The Most Important Fish in the Sea”
The American Saltwater Guides Association (ASGA), is calling on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to immediately reduce the total allowable catch of…
Ocean Pumped Hydro Storage Company Sizable Energy Raises $8 Million
Ocean pumped hydro storage company Sizable Energy has raised $8 million. The company will use the money to accelerate commercial deployment. Founded in 2022, the company makes an offshore pumped hydro system that stores energy by…
Internet of Underwater Things Tech Company WSense Raises €10 Million
Italian technology company WSense has closed a pre-series B round of €10 million. The company enables what it calls the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) through its subsea Wi-Fi systems that connect signals from devices on…
Global Reporting Initiative and Carbon Disclosure Project Release Tool to Map Sustainability Compliance Reporting Across Data Sets
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) have released a new resource that maps CDP’s 2025 corporate questionnaire to the…
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Shanghai Green Shipping Corridor Reports Progress on Its Goals
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Shanghai Green Shipping Corridor reports in its second Annual Progress Report that it has delivered on phase 1 milestones, including the expansion of shore power infrastructure to meet…
Blue Ocean Closures Says Its Fiber Caps Are Cheaper and More Sustainable Than Plastic Ones
Swedish company Blue Ocean Closures (BOC) has said its latest generation of fiber screw caps can match or outperform fossil plastic in material cost, while delivering significantly lower energy consumption…
A2A Utility Company Issues What It Says Is Italy’s First Sustainable Blue Bond
Italian utility company A2A has launched a five-year €155 million private placement bond which it said is Italy's first sustainable blue bond. Proceeds will be allocated for the development and maintenance of projects…
Blue Finance New Sierra Club Tracker Shows Which Pensions’ Proxy Voting Guidelines Support Climate Action Mozambique Blue Economy to Get $7 Million Boost from ProAzul, GIZ Massachusetts Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative Receives Nearly $2 Million for Test…
French Embassy and ADPP Sign Cooperation Agreement for Coastal Resilience in Mozambique
The French Embassy in Mozambique and ADPP Mozambique celebrated last Friday (10) in Maputo the signing of a “Cooperation Agreement for Coastal Resilience under the Creation of a New Marine Protected Area”…
Trump Administration Bullies IMO Members into Postponing Net-Zero Framework Vote for One Year
The U.S. Trump Administration bullied the International Maritime Organization into postponing for one year a vote on a Net-Zero Framework, including a carbon tax, aimed at decarbonizing the global…
New Sierra Club Tracker Shows Which Pensions’ Proxy Voting Guidelines Support Climate Action
The Sierra Club has published a new interactive tracker analyzing the proxy voting guidelines of major U.S. public pensions. The tracker analyzes the proxy voting guidelines, proxy voting records, and…
Five Organizations Embark on Pilot to Test New Science-Based Targets for the Seafood Sector
Danish Pelagic Producers Organization, Musholm, Orkla Foods Sweden, Seatopia and Waitrose have joined a pilot to set the first ocean science-based targets for the seafood sector, using Science-Based Target…
ONE Extends Partnership to Ship Nike Products Using ISCC-Certified Biofuels
Ocean Network Express (ONE) is pleased to announce the extension of its strategic partnership with Nike, expanding the deployment of ONE's sustainable shipping solution, ONE LEAF+ to transport Nike products with…
Mozambique Blue Economy to Get $7 Million Boost from ProAzul, GIZ
The Blue Economy Development Fund (ProAzul – FP) and the German Cooperation (GIZ) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and the respective Action Plan that guarantees financing of 450 million meticais (USD$7 million) to boost…
