Oceans
Enduring legacies and resilient capital in the blue economy.
MISSION
The Blue Resilience Capital Collective connects long-term legacy investors with nature-based solutions that impact the blue economy
Investing in blue resilience
From coastal infrastructure and innovative finance to direct investments in nature assets such as mangrove blue carbon projects, we work with companies, investors and philanthropists to create new opportunities that stack carbon, coastal resilience and decarbonization returns on investment, enabling companies and investors to move passive offsetting to active stewardship.
- Strategic ROI:
Direct project investments that align blue carbon offsets with strategic investor and business value (resilience of coastal assets, brand & stakeholder value) - Innovative Finance:
Enabling philanthropy, corporates, investors to connect and co-invest, creating synergies across different investment mandates and products. - Financing Resilience:
Positioning blue carbon projects as part of ESG and regulatory strategies, climate risk adaptation and corporate green finance opportunities.
Investing in a Blue Legacy
The global blue economy — valued at $3–6 trillion annually and vital to the livelihoods of 3.5 billion people — sits at the frontline of Earth’s systemic risks. Ocean health, coastal resilience, and sustainable resource use are reaching critical thresholds in an era of accelerating climate impacts, food and energy insecurity, and geopolitical volatility. SDG 14 (Life Below Water) remains the least funded UN goal. Fragmented markets and immature financial instruments are preventing capital from flowing at scale, leaving portfolios exposed to climate, regulatory, and supply chain risks while eroding the natural capital base that underpins the economy.
Linking global risks to high-value opportunities reframes undercapitalised solutions — from mangrove restoration and sustainable aquaculture to decarbonised shipping and offshore renewable infrastructure — as premium blue asset classes. Research shows that $2.8 trillion in catalytic investment could unlock over $15 trillion in net benefits by 2050.
For forward-looking investors, this is market-making capital: securing competitive returns, shaping the resilience of our most vital planetary systems, and building an enduring legacy in the next frontier of global markets.
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Coastal ecosystems provide over $1 trillion in flood protection benefits — yet remain critically underfunded. Investing in nature is investing in resilience.
Global investors and companies in coastal, maritime and high-carbon sectors, are well placed to invest in blue carbon as a strategic asset.
A value proposition for long-term investors
Long-term investors, including HNWIs, family offices, institutional capital and collaborating wealth platforms:
- Access investment intelligence with unique foresight. Includes quarterly briefs and curated content linking systemic risks in the blue economy to undervalued, premium blue economy assets.
- Access a strategic portfolio of investment opportunities in premium blue asset classes, curated for catalytic capital, philanthropy, and commercial growth.
- Access exclusive insight events and briefings that explore positions blue carbon projects as part of ESG and regulatory strategies, climate risk adaptation and corporate green finance opportunities.
Our Intelligence Drives Strategy
Our thought leadership anticipates what’s next. Our quarterly briefings keep investors and companies one step ahead, translating trends into strategic opportunities.
Connecting Capital to Investment Opportunities
Our intelligence on premium blue asset classes curates and connects a pipeline of investment opportunities, including projects, companies, funds and technologies, where commercial returns meet resilience impacts.
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Regional Initiatives
Catalytic philanthropy models in Indonesia
We launched the M40 Mangrove Program in partnership with UBS Optimus Foundation in 2022. We are building a global pipeline of blue carbon and mangrove-positive investment opportunities, developing investment pilots to bridge the gap between commercial capital and catalytic philanthropy, and creating a blueprint for mangrove investment at scale.
• A portfolio of investment pilots.
• The 'premium' blue carbon framework.
• A global pipeline of investable projects.
• New private sector leadership models.
Among the pilot projects of our M40 programme, we're working in one of the remaining mangroves sites in North Jakarta, Taman Wisata Alam Angke Kapuk (TWA AK), to bring funders and investors..
Nature-based Coastal Insurance in the Philippines
From 2020-2023, we brought together a collective of leading insurance companies in the Philippines, in partnership with the Philippines Insurance and Reinsurance Association (PIRA) and the insurance regulator, to explore, support and catalyse the development of insurance products that price the protection value of coastal ecosystems, in particular mangroves, for the industry’s future growth. This mobilized the sector to initiate the development of three products that re-position the country’s coastal natural wealth as part of the industry’s tools to increase its resilience to coastal natural disasters.
In 2017, we partnered with the Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers Association (PIRA), to explore how NbS could be incorporated into the industry’s climate resilience strategy. We are delighted to share that PIRA is now moving....
A Blueprint for a ‘Mangrove Bonds’ in Australia
From 2021-2022, we worked in partnership with HSBC Australia and a collective of local financial institutions and blue economy experts, to explore the opportunities and viable design options for creating a Mangrove Bond in Queensland, Australia. As part of the program we created a local implementation partnership and catalysed collaboration between coastal
infrastructure companies and project developers to take the blueprint into action in selected locations.
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Our Voice
Investing in Resilience in LDCs: The Business Case for Coastal Nature-based Solutions
Activating insurance leadership in the Philippines: Pricing the value of mangroves in coastal insurance
Financing partnerships for resilience: How local mayors & companies can partner to finance adaptation
Pioneering a business collective to invest in coastal resilience through nature in the Philippines.
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FUNDERS
The Sponsors
The Blue Resilience Capital Collective is supported by The Good Energies Foundation, The Swiss Re Foundation, and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and is part of the Inclusive GEF Challenge Programme.
Get in touch
If you’re an investor looking for opportunities, or a project looking for funding, get in touch to discuss how we could work together.