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

WOS APAC: How to implement and manage marine protected areas

It’s Day Two of Economist Impact’s World Ocean Summit Asia-Pacific. Join us for today’s exciting sessions.

I will be moderating a plenary panel discussion on how to implement and manage marine protected areas (MPAs). I will be joined by three fantastic speakers:

• Carol Phua, coral reef rescue initiative lead, WWF
• Willy Kostka, executive director, Micronesia Conservation Trust
• Ma Jian, vice-president, The Paradise International Foundation

Register for free 👉https://bit.ly/3lsba0T

Key talking points

This session will highlight best practices in the region. What will it take to make MPAs work? Community engagement, strong leadership and healthy investment are crucial. How can ocean leaders ensure that MPAs are more than “paper parks”?

More on the ocean economy:

Speaking about “Impact Finance for a Sustainable Blue Economy” at Bali Ocean DaysJanuary 30, 2025
Joining the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)January 7, 2025
Reminiscing about the successes of 2024December 31, 2024
Participating in the UNIDO Expert Group Meeting in ViennaDecember 20, 2024
Joining the Marine Conservation Society as a Director/TrusteeDecember 10, 2024

Tags: conservation marine conservation MPAs ocean

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

A prolific global speaker, Martin has chaired the World Ocean Summit since 2019 and spoken at other major global ocean, climate and sustainability events such as the UN Ocean Conference, UN World Ocean Day, 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 is available for consulting and speaking opportunities.

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