The health of the ocean reflects choices made across generations, including how capital is invested and what it supports. Blue Finance Canada makes those connections visible and explores how finance can take greater responsibility for its impact on the ocean.
A few pieces that show how this publication thinks.
A fishing boat connects an owner, a livelihood and a changing ocean. Following those connections reveals how investment decisions affect ocean health, and how changes in the ocean affect the people and businesses that depend on it.
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Construction lenders use independent checks to confirm that work is done. How do we check whether blue finance delivers what it promises for the ocean?
How do you fund ocean conservation for the long term? The Great Bear Sea agreement offers a model built around Indigenous stewardship and an endowment designed to last.
What makes finance “blue”? An introduction to what the term means, which activities qualify and how Canada is putting it into practice.
Find a way into blue finance through your work, experience or interests.
Explore the connections between lending, investment and risk, the health of the ocean and the livelihoods it supports.
Follow the money behind ocean industries, conservation and Indigenous stewardship, and see what it means for coastal communities.
Discover how evidence, public policy and institutions influence which ocean projects get funded and how their results are assessed.
New analysis, commentary and research.
Canada’s ghost-gear work shows why funding for prevention and recovery needs to last beyond a pilot.
A Canadian director can raise ocean exposure at the board. The harder problem is that the exposure is spread across functions and nobody owns the whole picture.
A missed payment follows a borrower to the next lender. A fuel spill in a First Nation's fishing grounds usually doesn't. Why environmental history stays behind, and where it travels.
Collecting and processing ocean data has got cheaper and faster. Knowing what we are doing to the ocean has not. Observation, interpretation and assurance are three different problems.
Explore ocean industries through four connected reports: the main findings, how the industry works, its relationship with the ocean, and how it is financed.
How Canada’s offshore energy industry operates, what it means for the ocean, and the financial decisions behind its development.
A concise synthesis for readers who want the main findings and implications.
Coming soonHow the industry works, where value is created, and what its structure means.
Read the reportWhat the industry depends on, what it changes, and where ecological limits matter.
Coming soonHow capital supports the industry and where better alignment with ocean sustainability is possible.
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