Martin Koehring 🌏 Global Blue Economy and Sustainability Expert | Ocean Futurist | Charity Board Trustee | TEDx Speaker

Speaking at Economist Impact’s 12th annual World Ocean Summit & Expo in Tokyo

I am looking forward to speaking at Economist Impact’s 12th annual World Ocean Summit & Expo in Tokyo, Japan, on 12th-13th March. 🌊

💙 I will join a panel on “The zero-pollution ocean: risk and opportunities”, speak about “How to drive solutions for the success of the Global Plastics Treaty”, and moderate a session on “How to shape global standards for blue data, technology and capacity building”.

🌐The World Ocean Summit convenes a wide cross-section of the ocean community from business and finance to government, national and international policy-makers, civil society and academia. The 12th annual summit will focus on the transition to a sustainable ocean economy, ocean stewardship, strategies to restore ocean health, advancements in marine technology and collaborative efforts to address ocean pollution. The agenda will include a series of “How to” workshops designed to generate tangible action points and key takeaways to enable organisations to instigate change and make an impact on the journey towards a healthier ocean.

👉 Find out more about the World Ocean Summit agenda and how to attend here

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Martin is a global ocean, climate and sustainability expert and futurist with 20+ years of experience. Currently, he is Director/Trustee at both the Marine Conservation Society, a leading ocean conservation charity in the UK, and the New Economics Foundation, a major sustainable-development think tank. He served as Sustainable Blue Economy Consultant (Ocean and Finance Specialist) at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). Previously, he was Senior Strategic Expert in Blue Economy at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Head of The Economist’s World Ocean Initiative, Practice Lead for Sustainability, Climate Change and Natural Resources at Economist Impact (The Economist Group), and Global Director of Impact at the leading international sustainability NGO Forum for the Future.

A prolific global speaker, Martin has chaired the World Ocean Summit and spoken at other major global ocean, climate and sustainability events such as the UN Ocean Conference, UN World Ocean Day, Our Ocean Conference, COP26/World Biodiversity Summit, Island Finance Forum, Virtual Island Summit, World Water Week, Blue Earth, edie, Climate Week NYC, London Climate Action Week, Economist Sustainability Week and the World Green Economy Summit. He has published widely on ocean and sustainability issues on Economist Group platforms and in other reputable outlets such as UN Today, BusinessGreen, the T20 compendium for India’s G20 presidency and the Ocean Yearbook.

Martin is known for accelerating the growth and impact of the World Ocean Initiative, helping to establish Economist Impact’s Sustainability Project (winner of a Webby Award for “Best Writing – Editorial”), serving as project director for the award-winning Food Sustainability Index, and giving a TEDx talk on “How a just & regenerative mindset can help us navigate the polycrisis”.

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