Diving into oceans data: new technologies and implications to support corporate reporting

The ocean-realm covers 70% of the world surface and supports an economy, the Blue Economy, worth more than US$1.5 trillion per year. This makes it the seventh largest economy in the world. There is an abundance of ocean data available for decision-making including understanding risk, undertaking mitigation action, and imperatively, addressing impacts on nature and the opportunity to address them.  

The Blue Economy, referring to all ocean-related activities, is forecasted to double by 2030 to US$3 trillion, making access to findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable ocean data critical.  Under increasing pressure, the ocean-realm is undergoing a series of irrefutable transformations under the combined influence of rising populations, increasing incomes, scarcer natural resources, a changing climate and rapidly evolving technologies. There is however an opportunity to understand and address the threat of economic activity to the ocean-realm, to transform established economic sectors and usher in new sectors to pave the way for sustainable use of the oceans.  

TNFD has recognised the need to provide for the ocean realm, including oceans in its recommendations and, now expanding on the indicators presented to include metrics and measurements for ocean-based sectors.

Speakers

• Keith Tuffley, Polar & Oceans Explorer. Former Chairman of Energy Transition & Sustainability at Citi. Founder & CEO – Neuw Ventures SA, Grand Tours Project, Adventure Yacht Co 
• Dr. Kat Bruce, Founder at Nature Metrics
• Laura Clavey, Lead, Measurement and Oceans, TNFD    
• Cathrine Armour, Director, Data Initiatives, TNFD. Advisory Board Member, National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), Member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Former Chief Customer Officer, UK Hydrographic Office 

Moderator  

Tony Goldner, Executive Director, TNFD

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