What blue finance looks like in practice. The focus is on real projects from around the world, how they were structured, and what they produced. Both the good and the bad.
Indigenous Stewardship
On the central coast of British Columbia, the Wuikinuxv Nation is testing whether a financing structure can be built around salmon stewardship in its territory. The work is early, and that is part of what makes it worth watching.
The Instruments
In 2023, the world's largest offshore wind company became the first energy firm to issue a blue bond. What the money actually funded says something about where corporate blue finance is heading.
The Instruments
In 2018 one of the world's smallest countries borrowed fifteen million dollars and, in doing so, showed the world what a blue bond could be. The money was small. What Seychelles attached to it, in conditions, reporting, and marine protection, was the part worth studying.