Stressors
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not the solid island of trash it is usually pictured as. What it actually is, and how it forms, says a lot about how materials move through the ocean.
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All Essays
Essays, analysis and explainers from across Blue Finance Canada, arranged from newest to oldest.
78 published essays
Where Things Stand
Canada’s Role in the Development of Blue Finance
Canada invented the financing model the conservation world now copies, and committed real money to its oceans. It is also missing its own marine targets. The gap between the two is the most useful thing its record shows.
The Basics
The Origins of Blue Finance
No one set out to invent blue finance. It is the name we gave to something that had already been happening for years, as people working on fisheries, coastlines, development lending, and ocean science slowly realized they were circling the same problem.
The Basics
How to Tell If Blue Finance Is Working
New instruments and funding models get most of the attention. The harder test is whether financial decisions stay connected to the systems they affect, across longer time horizons, indirect consequences and measurable outcomes.
The Basics
The Core Concepts Behind Blue Finance
Every financial decision lands somewhere real, and for a large part of Canada's economy, that somewhere is the ocean. Three ideas explain how capital and ocean systems connect, and what blue finance does about it.
Where Things Stand
Canada's Sovereign Wealth Fund and Blue Finance
Canada is building its first sovereign wealth fund. The fund wasn't designed with oceans in mind, but the gap it could fill is exactly where blue finance has been stuck for years.