About

Blue Finance is a Canadian platform focused on how financial decisions connect to ocean outcomes.

Lending, investment, and policy decisions do not sit apart from the natural world. They influence it, often in ways that are not immediately visible, and on timelines that extend well beyond the decision itself. In practice, those connections are rarely made explicit. This work looks more directly at that gap.

The focus is on how finance operates in real settings. Credit frameworks, risk assessments, and capital allocation are the mechanisms through which decisions are made and real-world outcomes are determined. In Canada, this remains an emerging area. There is a growing body of global work, often led by institutions such as the World Bank and the United Nations, but practical translation into Canadian financial practice is still limited. This site is a place to examine that translation in a way that is clear and usable.

The content is organised in four parts. Blue Finance introduces the core ideas, guiding principles, and real-world examples that define the field. Canada looks at how ocean-related activity is developing across the country, how it may develop further, and how capital is applied in practice. Insights connects ideas across the field, focusing on patterns that are not always visible in individual developments. Blue Currents provides a monthly update on policy, funding, and research shaping blue finance, with a focus on Canada.

Brian Rogers is the founder of Blue Finance. He spent more than three decades in Canadian financial services, most recently as a Chief Risk Officer in the credit union sector. Working in cooperative finance meant that the community dimension of capital allocation was never far from view. What took longer to see was how those same decisions connected to the health of the ocean, and how rarely that connection was part of the conversation.

That gap is what this site is about.