Join Paul Holthus, CEO of the World Ocean Council and I from the 2022 APAC Impact Investment Summit, as we discuss the purpose and scale of the World Ocean Council in creating industry leadership in keeping the global ocean healthy, such as by lowering emissions by reducing biofouling on vessels, and the need and opportunity for investing in and developing port reception facilities to tackle broad solid waste challenges. These include the 150 million tons of plastics in the ocean, the 11 million tons being added every year, the 5 countries responsible for 95% of this waste.
We move on to "Ships of Opportunity" which is working to use the 90,000 merchant vessels and three to four million fishing boat to collect data to help document and responsibly use the ocean. We also talk about the great need for investing in the creation of technologies that will improve our understanding, monitoring and management of oceans and climate change.
I ask what Paul what he's changed his mind about over the past decades, and what needs to happen next when it comes to 'Corporate Ocean Responsibility', before we discuss the open oceans;
Paul outlines how open ocean carbon sequestration is the only frontier big enough to enable us to sequester the gigatons of carbon needed to truly tackle a warming planet, and leaves our conversation with his one piece of advice for investors focused on climate change and leaving a better future for the world.
Find out more and join the organisation at https://www.oceancouncil.org; Paul and team are particularly happy to help investors really understand where they can make a difference.
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