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

I'm excited to speak about "How to become a regenerative business" during London Climate Action Week on Thursday 27th June from 6pm. During this event, organised by The C Collective, we'll explore the concept of regenerative business and actionable tools such as Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) frameworks, Three Horizons and inner change.

I moderated an important session on “How to take action against ocean pollution from wastewater and sewage” at Economist Impact's recent World Ocean Summit in Lisbon. This session discussed how to move from traditional solutions to intersection and circularity in addressing sewage and wastewater pollution.

Basecamp is a 6-month part-time journey into the foundations of systems change practice. The course focuses on sharpening our understanding of systems change, using practical approaches to explore dynamics of change, and deepening our appreciation of how worldviews shape our thinking.

I moderated a great session on “How to invest better in the blue economy” at Economist Impact's recent World Ocean Summit in Lisbon. The session focused on how investors can identify companies that combine strong growth potential with a truly sustainable business model.

I’m looking forward to hosting the “Scope 3 emissions and data management” session at the edie 24 event in London on Thursday. Among other things, I’ll be chairing a panel on “Unlocking the power of supply chains for deep decarbonisation”.

I'm thrilled to share that my TEDx talk on "How a just & regenerative mindset can help us navigate the polycrisis" has been published on the TEDx Talks YouTube channel.

Join me at Economist Impact’s 11th annual World Ocean Summit in Lisbon next week where I will be moderating 6 sessions, including the blue foods track. The event is taking place on March 11th-13th 2024, at Lisbon Congress Center, Lisbon, Portugal.

Last week I attended and spoke at Global Sustainability Partnership Network in Manchester. It was great to meet sustainability leaders to discuss how to work together to transform business, supply chains and the wider systems in which we operate. Here are my key takeaways.

Join me at Economist Impact’s 9th annual Sustainability Week, where I will be speaking this week. The event will take place on March 4th-6th 2024, in London, UK and virtual. I will be on a panel to discuss “Scaling local solutions for global supply chains” on Tuesday March 5th 2024, 17:00 GMT.

I’m looking forward to attending and speaking at Global Sustainability Partnership Network (GSPN) in Manchester this week. I’ll attend both days (29 February and 1 March) and deliver a speech on “The Changemaker Mindset”. Read the synopsis here.

Forum for the Future's latest report from the Protein Challenge Southeast Asia programme focuses on agroecology in the region. What is agroecology? Why is it important for a healthy, resilient food system? Where and how do finance actors come into the picture?

Recognising the need for urgent transformative action, Forum for the Future is launching the Responsible Energy Initiative in the Philippines (REI Philippines) – a multi-year, consortium-driven programme that aims to maximise renewable energy’s potential in the country.

The Future Possibilities Index (FPI) 2024, published by Horizon Group and Newsweek Vantage, asks: "What are the economic and social possibilities of the next decade and how can countries take advantage of them?". I was part of an expert panel that contributed to the study. It measures how 70 countries are leveraging six transformational trends.

My article on ocean innovation has been published as part of “Horizon 2030”, a new report from the global ESG innovation platform Springwise, which outlines seven key drivers of sustainable change from now until the end of the decade.

Last week I was in Patras, Greece to give a talk at TEDxPatras about how the shift to a just and regenerative mindset can help us to navigate the age of polycrisis.

On 9 December I will give a talk at TEDxPatras in Greece about how the shift to a just and regenerative mindset can help us to navigate the age of polycrisis.

I have been working with a multi-disciplinary team on diagnosing the aquaculture system, as part of a course called Basecamp by the School for Systems Change (a sister organisation of Forum for the Future). This infographic summarises some of our findings.

I am looking forward to speaking about what a just and regenerative aquaculture system could look like at Sustainable Foods London next week. Sustainable Foods London focuses on tackling the key sustainability challenges that are affecting the Food and Drink Industry. The 3rd edition of Sustainable Foods London takes place on November 6th-7th 2023.

I had the pleasure to moderate an engaging session on the role of the CSO at Economist Impact’s Sustainability Week: Countdown to COP28 in London. My summary blog on the session has just been published.

I moderated two sessions at the Blue Earth Summit in Bristol. The first one was an interview with Fiona Morgan, chief purpose officer at SailGP. Another session looked at wildlife conservation, with James Honeyborne, creative director at Freeborne Media and Sarah Richdon, a zoologist at Bristol Zoological Society.