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

Speaking at the World Ocean Forum 2025 next week

🌊 Excited to be speaking next week at the World Ocean Forum 2025 in Busan, South Korea on “Navigating a Wave of New Blue Finance Opportunities”!

The ocean faces unprecedented challenges: climate change, nature loss, pollution, and social injusticebut its also a source of incredible solutions. From blue carbon ecosystems to sustainable aquaculture and marine renewable energy, investing in the ocean can drive climate resilience, biodiversity restoration, and inclusive economic growth.

Next week, I’ll share insights on:

The growing blue bond market and emerging finance instruments
Practical guidance and case studies from sectors like seafood, ports, and shipping
One Ocean Finance, a first-of-its-kind platform to mobilize up to USD 170 billion for ocean resilience by 2040

If you’re passionate about sustainable finance, ocean health, and turning risk into opportunity, this session is for you. Lets harness the power of capital to protect our ocean and build a resilient, inclusive future.

📅 22nd October 2025 | 📍 Lotte Hotel, Busan

🔗 More info: World Ocean Forum 2025

Tags: Blue Economy blue finance

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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