green oceans strategy

GREEN OCEANS VENTURE CAPITALBarbados as a Global Hub for Knowledge about Oceans Research and Fisheries

SPEECH AT UNIVERSITY OF WEST INDIES AT CAVE HILL OCTOBER 13th, 2011

www.jimdewilde.net

THE NEW HORIZONS OF INVESTMENT Preserving shared heritage ecosystems

(rainforests, coral reefs, oceans) The intersection of health, environment

and agriculture (food preservation, food quality management, nutrition management, bioremediation, incineration, industrial biotechnology).

Economic implications of marine ecology Cost of toxic algae Opportunities for new sensing technolog

y in robotic fish

Marine resource management as an environmental trust issue

New sources of value in a global green economy Sustainability has value Acosta and the creation of value from

ECUADOR rain forests Arable land as a gold standard Daewoo and Madagascar East African botanicals and the need for

specialized agricultural lands

The trends in global capital allocation CASE STUDY INVENTAGES AGRICULTURE 2.0

NEW SEED ADVISORS

Oceans and marine ecology knowledge as a cornerstone of environmental restoration

There is no famine when communities can fish

Ocean mining, ocean drilling have to be turned into green industries

Water management and nutrient production are cornerstones of the new global economy.

GREEN OCEANS AGENDA - Barbados GLOBAL HUB GREEN OCEANS VENTURE

CAPITAL (nanocomposites, coral transplants, aquaculture, wave energy) with capacity to invest and build companies to scale. See as model: AQUAGROFUND.

UWI MARINE ECOLOGY/OCEAN SCIENCES as a scientific centre. Building collaborative networks online re oceans agenda.

Green Oceans Commercializing fisheries management Commercializing oceans management

KEY TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURE

OCEANA

MARINE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL

UBC FISHERIES RESEARCH

GLOBAL POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT OF OCEANS MANAGEMENT The scale of the commitment

CASE STUDIES: MAURITIAN OCTOPUS INDONESIAN SEAWEED

CASE STUDIES FOR COURSE ON GREEN OCEAN VENTURES 1. Underwater mining NAUTILUS 2. Jellyfish as global warming indicator 3. Fish barcode 4. Indonesian seaweed 5. Mauritanian octopus 6. Sea cucumbers and nanocomposites 7. Coral reef regeneration 8. Ecological aquaculture TILAPIA 9. Mussels and adhesives 10. Wave energy

NETWORK OF EXPERTISE FROM THESE CASE STUDIES Management of ocean resources Application of new materials Expertise in ecological heritage

management (coral reefs, ocean ecosystem)

Fisheries inventory and green fishing strategies

Global environment – MAURITANIAN OCTOPUS

MAURITANIAN OCTOPUS

Wall Street Journal article in 2007

Sustainable sushi

Mauritanian fishing

Global marine sciences research KAUST in Saudi Arabia

WOODS HOLE

Case Study CORAL REGENERATION

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology  National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa

“We have been replanting forests for 4,000 years, but we are only just now learning how to revive a coral reef,” said Mineo Okamoto, a marine biologist at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (New York Times April 15th, 2009)    

Case studies ocean industries – wave energy University College Cork’s Hydraulics and

Maritime Research Centre

Ecological Aquaculture

John Volpe University of Victoria Barry Costa-Pierce Global aquaculture

Venture capital in AQUACULTURE, see Aquacopia

Case study oceans research -nanocomposites Sea Cucumbers and Nanotechnology Lead to Plastics That Can Change Softness When Exposed to Liquids

Strategic alliances between companies and GREEN OCEANS Starkist Acciona (water management) Vivendi (water management) Nautilus Minerals (underwater mining) Danish fish production industry Wave energy companies, e.g. OWEC ,

Pelamis, Ocean Power Technologies

BARBADOS AS A CLUSTER OF GREEN OCEAN INDUSTRIES MARINE ECOLOGY GLOBAL FISHERIES GLOBAL ENERGY GLOBAL MINING NEW MATERIALS

Case Study Underwater Mining UNDERWATER MINING INSTITUTE AT UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

For more on global underwater mining see UNDERWATER MINING and UNDERSEA MINING.

GREEN OCEANS VENTURESECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES Knowledge about marine conservation

and regeneration Commercializing marine biology and

marine ecology Ocean industries (wave energy) New materials (biofuels, adhesives) Nutrition and global health (aquaculture

and conserving fish stock)

OCEANS RESEARCH AND GREEN VENTURE CAPITAL Oceans research is good for the environment

and an opportunity to create new sources of wealth

Coastal zone management (fisheries, reef management, beach erosion) a cornerstone of real estate

Food production and environmental quality are the new gold standard

Marine ecology a leading venture capital category in the 2010s and beyond

BARBADOS GREEN VENTURES PORTFOLIO (imagined 2021) Robotic Fish and Global Environmental

Sensing Coral Reef Regeneration and Fisheries

management Green Underwater mining technologies Wave energy New biomaterials from marine biology+ the entrepreneurial imagination of 1000s of young scientists doing things not imagined