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UpLink Ocean

The Challenge

Business as usual is not an option. Change must be propelled by innovation. To fast-track the innovations urgently needed to save the ocean, we must tap into the wealth of creativity from youth leaders, social and technology entrepreneurs, and finance innovators passionate about ocean health. The world needs a facilitator to make the right connections and remove obstacles.

The Impact Pillar

UpLink Ocean acts to help enable the other pillars of the Friends of Ocean Action in support of the Sustainable Development Goal for a healthy ocean. We nurture and connect ocean innovators to influential networks in order to scale their solutions. UpLink is an open innovation platform that creates bridges for entrepreneurs to connect to the investors, corporate partners, experts and governments they need to scale. We exist to unlock an entrepreneur revolution and drive systemic change for people and planet.

Top Innovators

Blue Carbon Challenge

  • Announced at the 9th Annual World Ocean Summit
  • 12 organisations delivering on the promise of blue carbon
  • See also in Spanish

Blue Food Challenge

  • 11 innovations shaping global food systems from the water

Restoring, protecting and investing in the ocean

  • 11 innovations protecting life below water – and above it

Virtual Ocean Dialogues Ocean Solutions Sprint

  • 3 innovations which are leading the fight to save our ocean

Plastic Ocean Pollution

  • RecyGlo [Action on Ocean Plastic Award)
  • Pinovo AS
  • Plastic LOOP
  • Madiba & Nature
  • Life Out of Plastic – L.O.O.P.
  • The Flipflopi Project

Growing Food in Water

  • Oceanium [People’s Choice Award]

Ocean Risk and Resilience

  • Global Coralition

Ocean Finance

  • Cubex Global [Ocean Innovation Award]

Illegal Fishing

  • OLSPS
  • Unseenlabs

Supporting Partners

  • Salesforce
  • Coastal Oceans Research and Development - Indian Ocean (CORDIO) East Africa
  • Conservation International
  • REV Ocean
  • Gulf International Bank UK
  • Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions
  • WorldFish
  • 4IROcean
  • "X" - The MoonShot Factory (Alphabet)
  • IUCN
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • HATCH
  • Katapult Ocean
  • Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust
  • International Coral Reef Initiative
  • BNCFF - Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility
  • SWEN Capital (formerly Blue Ocean Partners)
  • AquaSpark

Founding Partners

Deloitte

Salesforce

Sustainable Development Goals

Other impact pillars

Activating ocean finance

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Building a resilient ocean

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Creating a digital ocean

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Nourishing billions

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Friends of Ocean Action

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