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

The Peggy Smedley Show: Sustainability in the Seas

On 20 August I was interviewed on The Peggy Smedley Show, a leading podcast on digital transformation that averages 115,000 listeners.

The discussion revolved around sustainability in the seas, why we need to stop thinking of the economy as linear and why sustainability is a business issue, amongst other items.

Listen to the full episode below:

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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”.

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

Martin’s TEDx talk about the power of mindset shifts

The Peggy Smedley Show: Sustainability in the Seas

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