# Insights


## Curated Publications and Reports

Discover our knowledge products, papers and publications.


### High-Quality Blue Carbon For Practitioners Guide

July, 2026

[Explore](https://oceanriskalliance.org/resource/launching-the-high-quality-blue-carbon-practitioners-guide/)


### Navigating Ocean Innovation: The Practical Guide for Beginners

May, 2026

[Explore](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Navigating_Ocean_Innovation_2026.pdf)


### High-Quality Blue Carbon: Guidance For Benefit-Sharing Agreements

May, 2026

[Explore](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_High_Quality_Blue_Carbon_2026.pdf)


### Turning the Tide: A Financier’s Guide to Investing in Blue Carbon Ecosystems

[Explore](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Turning_the_Tide_A_Financier's_Guide_to_Investing_in_Blue_Carbon_Ecosystems_2026.pdf)


### The Ocean Can’t Wait: A Quick Start Guide to Investing in a Healthy Ocean

January, 2026

[Explore](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_A_Quick_Start_Guide_to_Investing_in_a_Healthy_Ocean_2026.pdf)


### Investing in Blue Foods: Innovation and Partnerships for Impact

January, 2026

[Explore](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Investing_in_Blue_Foods_2026.pdf)


### Blue Foods Innovation: An Investment Case for Africa

January, 2026

[Explore](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Investment_Case_for_Africa_Pager.pdf)


### 30x30 Ocean Action Plan: Turning Ambition into Action for Ocean Protection

September, 2025

[Explore](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_30x30_Ocean_Action_Plan_2025.pdf)


### Advancing China’s Sustainable Blue Economy - Building Strong Policy Foundations for Ocean Accounting and Blue Finance

June, 2025

[Explore](https://avpn.asia/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/WEF_Advancing_Chinas_Sustainable_Blue_Economy_2025-compressed.pdf)


### SDG14 Financing Landscape Scan: Tracking Funds to Realize Sustainable Outcomes for the Ocean

June, 2022

[Explore](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Tracking_Investment_in_and_Progress_Toward_SDG14.pdf)


### Fast-tracking ocean solutions: FOA Phase I Impact Report

March, 2021

[Explore](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/FOA_Impact_Report_2021.pdf)


### The Ocean Finance Handbook

April, 2020

[Explore](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FOA_The_Ocean_Finance_Handbook_April_2020.pdf)


### Impact Report: The Business Case for Marine Protection and Conservation

March, 2020

[Explore](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Business_case_for_marine_protection.pdf)


### Friends of Ocean Action Community Report 2019

January, 2019

[Explore](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FOA_Progress_REPORT.pdf)


## Friends of Ocean Action Videos


### A pragmatic approach to ocean action

Peter Thomson is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean. He’s urging young people to take part in climate action but he’s also clear about where responsibility lies.


### Reasons to be optimistic about the future of ocean

By Susan GardenerDirector, Ecosystems Division, UNEP


### The role of the High Seas Treaty

Hear from Minna Epps, Director of IUCN Ocean, as she sheds light on the pivotal role the United Nations High Seas Treaty plays in ensuring the protection and restoration of our vast ocean ecosystems.


### The ocean cannot wait: It’s time to scale up action

By Gina GrilloAmbassador for the Ocean and Environment, Costa Rica


### Turning ocean commitments into real protection

By Maria DamanakiCo-Founder, Leading Women for the Ocean; Senior Advisor on Ocean, Climate Change and Blue Economy


### Science and Collaboration: The Path to 30x30

By Ana SpaldingCentre Director, Community-Based Resilience Solutions Initiative, Smithsonian, Panama


### How investment can accelerate ocean recovery

By Chris Gorell BarnesFounder, Ocean 14 Capital


### From BBNJ to 30x30: Scaling effective ocean protection

By Cynthia BarzunaDirector, Ocean Action 2030 Coalition, World Resources Institute


### The power of working together for the ocean

By Anna MarsdenManaging Director, Great Barrier Reef Foundation


### Davos AM23 - Ocean 20: Building a Sustainable Blue Economy

This discussion provides the science-business-policy lens on the pressures confronting the ocean and identifies the areas for responsible stewardship.

[Discover more](https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ocean-20-building-a-sustainable-blue-economy-english/)


### Cabo Pulmo: a model for a new conservation approach called Marine Prosperity Areas

By Alfredo GirónHead of Ocean, World Economic Forum

[Discover more](https://www.weforum.org/videos/heres-how-this-small-mexican-town-revived-its-overfished-coral-reef/)


### The ocean is getting darker. That's bad news for marine life

More than 20% of the ocean has darkened, shrinking the vital photic zone and threatening marine life, oxygen production, and the fight against climate change.


## Statements and Campaigns

Discover Friends of Ocean Action Statements and Declarations.


## Featured Content

### Friends of Ocean Action Statement on the INC-5.2

[Read more](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FOA_Statement_on_INC_5.2_2025.pdf)

### Bring it All Together

[Read more](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Bring_it_All_Together_for_the_Ocean_6pp_2024.pdf)

### Ocean Action in 2023

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[Read more](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Ocean_Action_Statement_2023.pdf)

### The Blue Thread for Ocean Action

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[Read more](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Blue_Thread_for_Ocean_Action_2022.pdf)

### No Healthy Planet without a Healthy Ocean

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[Read more](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_No_Healthy_Planet_without_a_Healthy_Ocean_2022.pdf)


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