Organizing courses focused on community-based entrepreneurship and the blue economy is essential for empowering individuals and communities, promoting sustainable development and economic innovation.
Events, in turn, provide opportunities for knowledge exchange, networking, and collaboration, allowing participants to rethink their behaviors and consumption choices in light of a systemic approach connecting land and ocean.
Expected Outcomes:
Visibility for Reference Solutions: Highlight exemplary solutions for climate, social, and environmental challenges that have the potential to attract interest and investments from other industries and investors.
Connecting Value Chain Actors: Facilitate connections among actors in complementary value chains, including those already operating in markets related to and dependent on natural resources, as well as sectors that may not have direct links but can contribute to or benefit from the conservation and enhancement of aquatic ecosystems.
Bringing Together Necessary Solutions and Technologies: Gather solutions and technologies needed for the decarbonization of the economy that contribute to the conservation of aquatic ecosystems and can mobilize capital for impact investment from markets and investors.
Engaging Key Actors in Value Chains: Assemble key stakeholders within the same value chain to discuss environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks, gaps, and structural causes of the main impacts on aquatic ecosystems.