Financing solutions for marine conservation
The synergies created within our multidisciplinary team enable us to rethink the way conservation is financed and deployed today. We support conservation project leaders, MPA managers, fishers and NGOs, in developing and implementing innovative, tailor-made solutions to optimise their action and positive impact on marine environments.
Making carbon financing more accessible
A programme to help Guinea-Bissau communities sell carbon credits
In West Africa, declining mangroves store carbon that can be valorised on the voluntary market.
The WAM project aims to equip communities in the Cacheu region of Guinea-Bissau, who protect these ecosystems, to generate and sell certified credits. This will enable them to finance their conservation activities and diversify their income.
Our solutions are designed to fill the conservation financing gap that is intensifying the current environmental crisis.
Making subsidies more accessible
A EMFAF-based pre-financing mechanism for sustainable European small-scale fishing
Small-scale fishers are under-represented among the beneficiaries of the European fisheries fund: EMFAF. Submitting a grant application is complex and requires fishers to advance the funds.
Our solution BlueMove finances technical assistance to help these fishers submit a sustainable fishing project to EMFAF, and then implement it. The mechanism pre-finances certain projects pending a positive grant decision.
We identify and develop the missing link that enables marine conservation to be financed more systemically and locally.
Diversifying income
A mooring fee collection tool for marine protected area managers
Many marine protected areas are underfunded, and devote a great deal of resources to managing the flow of tourists into their zones.
BlueSeeds enables them to automate the reception of boaters and the collection of mooring fees, thanks to BlueMooring. This mooring management tool can be easily deployed on any buoy field, without the need for new infrastructure.
