Abstract
There is an urgent need to demonstrate the compelling business and financial case for ocean-positive investments. That is why the World Economic Forum, the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance, Builders Vision and Katapult Ocean have collaborated to showcase the diversity, maturity, and bankability of investment opportunities within the regenerative and sustainable ocean economy in a new report, Making Waves in the Regenerative & Sustainable Ocean Economy: Transformative Ocean Investment Opportunities.
These real-world examples are intended to inspire confidence among capital providers, demonstrating that they are viable and essential to drive long-term resilience and economic prosperity, particularly in emerging and developing economies.
The report showcases both blue finance vehicles and investment platforms designed to aggregate capital and deploy it efficiently into high-impact ocean-positive solutions and highlights projects, initiatives and SMEs that have already demonstrated financial viability and delivered meaningful nature and economic outcomes.
The report makes the case that the ocean economy is not a distant and niche market; it is a rapidly growing, high-impact sector where financial returns align with tangible nature-positive outcomes with the potential to drive vital global change.