Sustainable Blue Economy Investment Forum

"No healthy planet without a healthy ocean" (Peter Thomson) was the key word in last week's Sustainable Blue Economy Investment Forum. It was a pleasure to feel the dynamics and momentum around the sustainable ocean economy!

From the meetings I attended, I took three key insights:
- Everybody is talking about algae (my Korean mother-in-law would love to hear this)! Both as food, energy and material (replacing plastics) source, algae seem to be a key dimension in rethinking the ocean (and overall) economy - maybe one of the "next big things" to watch.
- Markus H.-P. Müller had a really good idea to add a National / Company stock accounting system on top of the GDP flow system we all know.
- And finally Fundação Oceano Azul's (mostly known for the Oceanário de Lisboa and its role in ocean's conservancy) President raised the point that Management Boards are required by Law to manage companies in a responsible and conservative manner - but that we don't see the same framework on Nature's relationship with firms and people.