Nature as Financial Infrastructure: Featuring BNP Paribas
In October 2024, the bank committed to a $35 million Blue Finance Facility with Blue Alliance to finance Marine Protected Areas across Indonesia, the Philippines, Tanzania, and Cabo Verde, targeting the regeneration of 1.8 million hectares of coral reef ecosystems across 115 MPAs. The facility uses blended finance, philanthropic capital from the Global Fund for Coral Reefs alongside BNP Paribas’s own impact investment, with interest rates indexed to environmental outcomes.
Maluku Province and Blue Alliance Indonesia Launch Long‑Term Co‑Management of 1.5 million Hectares of Marine Conservation Areas
The Provincial Government of Maluku and the Blue Alliance Indonesia Foundation have entered a landmark, long‑term co‑management agreement to strengthen the protection and sustainable use of 1.5 million hectares of marine conservation areas in one of the world’s most biodiverse seascapes.
Grantee Impact Stories – Blue Alliance Blended Finance Vehicle
Blue Alliance Blended Finance Vehicle, accelerated through the Catalytic Climate Finance Facility (CC Facility), is supporting 3.5 million hectares of MPAs across Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
Trafigura Foundation 2025 Annual Report
Blue Alliance’s partner, Trafigura foundations hares their 2025 Annual Report.
106 olive ridley hatchlings released in Calapan; more expected
A total of 106 olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings are being prepared for release into the sea from a protected hatchery in Barangay Navotas, Calapan City, on Sunday, February 22, 2026. The activity, led by the city’s Bantay Dagat, Fisheries Management Office, and Blue Alliance-Philippines, is part of ongoing efforts to protect the vulnerable species, with additional releases expected through March.
ORRAA 2025 Action Report
Explore Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance’s 2025 Action Report. Blue Alliance is featured on page 23.
Nature Transformation Fund – Milkywire | Klarna
Five years of funding initiatives tackling the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and human development.
The Wild Side of 2025 – Celebrating the year’s many successes in the global rewilding movement
As we draw near to the end of this wild year, we celebrate the remarkable strides made in rewilding around the world. From Quolls to Hyenas, Seagrass to Whales, countless species are thriving, their home land-and-seascapes restoring, and as a result entire ecosystems returning to health across all continents! Rewilders are having a global impact; planting seeds of hope through a wide range of positive actions.
From coral reefs to urban lakes: Insights from the field
Spending time in the field offers a perspective that no report or virtual meeting can replicate. As part of following the progress of the Nature Transformation Fund, I visited two of the projects we support in Indonesia and India. These visits are a crucial way to understand how our partners translate finance into tangible environmental outcomes and how local communities, ecosystems, and science come together in practice.
Delivering on Blue Finance: What’s Working and What Needs to Scale
Blue Alliance is featured in this Wildlife Conservation Society article on Blue Finance. ” Blue Alliance is using blended finance to fund early investments into coral reef-positive businesses that are associated with marine protected areas in Indonesia, Tanzania, and the Philippines.”