Who we are

The BluEconomy Initiative

As we believe in the development of the Blue Economy as an important guideline for island or coastal region governments to lift their economies and ...

Blue Economy

SUSTAINABLE BLUE ECONOMY VITAL FOR SMALL COUNTRIES AND COASTAL POPULATIONS With the livelihoods of about 40 per cent of the world's population living ...

Initiator & chairman

The BluEconomy Initiative was initiated by Nicholas Kouwenhoven of The Netherlands. He became a PADI certified diver in 1992 and explored the ...

Advisors

GREGORY RAS - is from the Dutch Caribbean island Aruba. He lived in The Netherlands were he studied Mechanical Engineering and Automotive at the ...

Marine resources 'essential'

This is particularly important to small island developing states (SIDS), for whom marine resources are critical assets, providing them with food ...

What does a truly sustainable blue economy mean?

Despite of the lack of a universally accepted definition of the term Blue Economy, the World Bank defines it as "the sustainable use of ocean ...

Action now

Small island developing states control 30 per cent of all oceans and seas. But how can SIDS and the private sector build equitable and accountable ...

The path of multilateralism

With millions employed worldwide in fishing and fish farming, most in developing countries, healthy and resilient marine and coastal ecosystems are ...

Sustainable Ship dismantling

Ship breaking or ship dismantling is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for either a source of parts, which can be sold for ...

Marine pollution

The inappropriate disposal of solid and liquid waste that ultimately ends in the ocean has been progressively deteriorating the quality of its ...