ESAFON Newsletter 2021
GLOBAL BLUE IMPACT INVESTMENT STRATEGY 2021
Strategic and Practical Tools
for Asset Owners, Family Offices, Private & Institutional Investors and Entrepreneurs
to build innovative, scalable and transparent Global Blue Impact Investments
The 5th Annual ESAFON Conference – November 17th, 2021 - Geneva
Geneva, February 3rd, 2021
Dear ESAFON Members & Partners,
ESAFON 5th Annual forthcoming conference “Global Blue Impact Investment Strategy” conference in Geneva has been pushed back to November 17th, 2021, Covid permits.
ESAFON has recently joined the UN Finance Initiative as an active member of the UNEP Sustainable Blue Economy Chapter based in Geneva. This forms a leadership community accelerating the transition towards the sustainable use of the world’s ocean, seas and marine resources.
For more than 5 years now, we have the ambition to contribute to change the capital market behaviour and prone and demonstrate with early impact investors that sustainable managed assets have better returns than traditional one. We are more than ever convinced that a sustainable green economy is the only prerequisite to the survival of our planet. Blue Ocean and land & forestry protection and development have a global reach to achieve zero gas emission by 2050.
We need focused investment strategies to support smart transfer of technologies to strengthen business models of the social entrepreneurs taking into account the circular economy principles, allowing them to become the leading sustainable large tech companies of tomorrow.
At the same time, existing boards of large cap companies will have to realise that ESG compliance is not enough to remain competitive and attractive. Shareholder values, more than ever, will be built upon from climate change active initiatives! Top-down and bottom-up engagement from all actors of the value chain towards a sustainable blue and green economy is crucial!
Two-thirds of our planet’s surface and 97% of our waters are ocean-related. Our future is intimately linked to its future. The ocean is a climate regulator, absorbing 25% of our CO2 emissions and releasing half of our oxygen.
Ocean routes carry 90% of world trade. The ocean is the new economic frontier with marine-related economies predicted to reach nearly 3 trillion dollars of global gross value by 2030.
The ocean is a primary source of protein for more than 1 billion of the poorest people along the coasts of developing countries.
80% of the world population is leaving no more than 80 kilometres from the sea-side and the value of global ocean assets is estimated to already be at over US$ 24 trillion making it the7th largest economy in the world in GDP terms. The global Blue Economy is expected to expand at twice the rate of the mainstream economy by 2030. Paradoxically, despite keen and growing investor interest in ocean-related opportunities, the ocean is still today one of the least invested of all the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly from a private capital point of view.
We, at ESAFON, together with our expert network, are determined to help you with the appropriate building blocks and tools needed to design and implement a workable blue impact investment strategy.
Thanks to ESAFON long lasting vision for the future, this 5th Annual Global Impact Summit will allow you to understand framing issues to the development of a sustainable blue economy to protect ocean and mitigate climate change. Join our 150+ delegates and learn more about investible opportunities already providing solutions.
We wish you a happy and net zero New Year 2021!
François Golbery, Chairman, ESAFON
Anne Walhain Golbery, Founding Partner, ESAFON
To know more about ESAFON, visit our web site: http://www.esafon.com
