Blue Alliance Marine Protected Areas Releases 2024 Annual Report Highlighting Milestones, Impact, and Vision for Scale
Blue Alliance Marine Protected Areas announced the release of its 2024 Annual Report, providing a comprehensive overview of its activities, achievements, and impact across three countries of operation: Indonesia, the Philippines, and Tanzania, all of which are ICRI member countries.
BNP Paribas 2024 Integrated Report
We are proud to be featured in BNP Paribas 2024 Integrated Report. Nicolas Pascal talks about how “by funding marine protected areas, we combine marine conservation with the economic development of local communities”.
The report includes many voices sharing the same ambition: accelerating current transitions.
Find Nicolas’s full interview on page 53 of the report.
SCIFF – Blue Finance Facility
The Blue Finance Facility is a a groundbreaking financial vehicle to regenerate marine biodiversity and develop the sustainable blue economy in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
Ocean Investment Protocol – 2025
Our Blue Finance blended vehicle is highlighted as a case study for the growth of the Sustainable Ocean Economy to achieve SDG14 and other related SDGs, in the United Nations Ocean Investment Protocol – 2025.
Making Waves in the Regenerative and Sustainable Ocean Economy
There is an urgent need to demonstrate the compelling business and financial case for ocean-positive investments. That is why the World Economic Forum, the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance, Builders Vision and Katapult Ocean have collaborated to showcase the diversity, maturity, and bankability of investment opportunities within the regenerative and sustainable ocean economy in a new report, Making Waves in the Regenerative & Sustainable Ocean Economy: Transformative Ocean Investment Opportunities.
The Ocean Opportunity: A Solution’s Guide for the Blue Economy
The Ocean Opportunity: A Solution’s Guide for the Blue Economy embodies SIF’s mission by showcasing practical solutions to marine challenges and mobilising stakeholders to act on climate and ocean health.
Blue Economy Impact Investments to Boost Marine Conservation in Pemba, Zanzibar
ICRI member Blue Alliance, a non-profit focused on managing large Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), announces its first impact investments in the North Pemba Channel Conservation Area (PECCA), Zanzibar.
A new age of innovative blue finance to protect Southeast Asia’s ocean
Southeast Asia is rich in biodiversity, but its natural ecosystems are under threat. Innovative Finance is proving to be a key tool in addressing these challenges. As a result many innovative financing mechanisms are emerging in Southeast Asia.
Catalytic Climate Finance Facility awards USD 2 million to new cohort of blended finance vehicles
The Catalytic Climate Finance Facility (CC Facility), a partnership between Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Convergence, recently announced its second cohort of market-ready blended finance vehicles. The CC Facility will grant the selected five grantees USD 2 million to test, structure, launch, and expand solutions.
Meeting global conservation targets: Biodiversity efforts need gender lens
The Guardian Tanzania recently highlighted the inspiring story of Asha Juma Khamis and Asha Bakar Mtwana, our female rangers from Pemba Island, who protect vital marine biodiversity in the North Pemba Channel Conservation Area. Their daily patrols help sustain local ecosystems and community livelihoods, showcasing the power of women in conservation as the world gathers for COP16.