World Ocean Summit 2025
Duration: 2mins
March 2025 • Tokyo, Japan
Economist Impact, with the support of official host The Nippon Foundation, is hosting the 12th World Ocean Summit in Tokyo in 2025.
The summit convenes the widest cross-section of the ocean community from business and finance to government, national and international policy-makers, civil society and academia.
The summit is designed to instigate action to develop the sustainable ocean economy; to encourage new partnerships across industries, with NGOs, scientists, technology developers and investors. By bringing together all stakeholders in the ocean ecosystem, the summit provides the perfect platform to inspire new synergies, solutions and strategies on the track to meet the 2030 targets in UN SDG 14.
Marine Chemical Pollution
Gateway to the ocean: a call for greater collaboration on marine pollution
Reading time: 8mins
From risk to reward: investments for a circular plastics economy
Reading time: 10mins
Lessons from Minamata: Japan’s chemical past and ambiguous future
Reading time: 8mins
A treaty of true cost: recalibrating the economics of the plastics industry
Reading time: 10mins
Where does marine chemical pollution come from?
Reading time: 1.5mins
Which chemicals are polluting our ocean?
Reading time: 1.5mins
Bankers of the world, unite (to end marine pollution)
Reading time: 3.5mins
A long and winding road: chemicals and the plastics value chain
Reading time: 10mins
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Back to Blue is an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation, two organisations that share a common understanding of the need to improve evidence-based approaches and solutions to the pressing issues faced by the ocean, and to restoring ocean health and promoting sustainability