Can sustainable seafood and energy de-risk Japan’s economy?

Japan has been staking out a leadership position in sustainable investing. Still, two of its largest industries, energy and seafood, have been slow to follow. Two recent reports call out environmental-related risks for Japan’s economy.

The Nature Conservancy wants to bring reef insurance to the U.S.

Building on its work in Mexico, the conservation nonprofit will study the potential for bringing reef insurance to Florida and Hawaii.

Investments in sustainable aquaculture point to a greener ‘blue economy’

Aquaculture has emerged as a vital alternative to wild-caught fish, a major source of the world’s protein, as ocean fisheries are strained by overfishing and climate change.

Pure Salmon plans $250 million sustainable aquaculture plant in Lesotho

Pure Salmon is a portfolio company of 8F Asset Management, a Singapore-based impact investing asset management firm.

Financing the sustainable takeover of farmed fish production

ImpactAlpha, May 9 – The world’s seafood farmers will need to invest up to $300 billion over the next decade to meet the booming demand for fish protein. Such capital expenditures represent an opportunity for impact-minded investors to promote sustainable farmed fish production, according to “Towards a Blue Revolution,” a guide to sustainable aquaculture from The

Sustainable tilapia farm in Zambia secures $10.5 million loan

Tilapia is a low-carbon, efficient source of protein and is conducive to aquaculture operations, which have a potentially “transformational effect for the availability and affordability of locally produced protein,” said Dutch development bank FMO, which issued the loan.

Aqua-Spark backs aquaculture startups BioFishency and Molofeed

The two investments bring sustainable aquaculture investor Aqua-Spark’s total portfolio to 16 companies.