Driving Meaningful Impact: Blue Action's 2025 Milestone Journey by Jeff Stoike, President of Blue Action

Blue Action Lab team: Tony Johns, Lashanti Jupp, Lachelle Russell, Ann-Marie Carroll, Melissa Halpern, Doneyah Garvey, Rupert Hayward

2025 was a year of huge questions for Blue Action. This resulted, in part, from major political and macro-economic shifts and uncertainties. But it also stemmed from an unprecedented sense of purpose and possibility for us at Blue Action and our efforts to build resilience for populations on the frontlines of the climate crisis. For Blue Action, it was a year of tangible growth and steps forward, but also a year to assess a shifting landscape - and seascape - of opportunities and contingencies in order to maximize our impact through both our non-profit capacity-building at Blue Action Lab, as well as our venture work within the Blue Action Accelerator.

Blue Action Accelerator investments: Clippership, Network Ocean, Otonomi & Emerald Nuclear

Blue Action Accelerator started the year with four exciting new investments: Clippership (wind-powered cargo vessels), Network Ocean (floating data centers for water and energy efficiencies), Otonomi (parametric insurance for cargo impacted by climate), and Emerald Nuclear (modular nuclear energy for shipping).

This year we also expanded into British Columbia with the successful launch of Blue Action Canada, through our wonderful partners at COAST (Center for Ocean Applied Sustainability Technologies). The objective of Blue Action Canada is to address the need for ocean entrepreneurs to scale out their ventures, enter new markets, and propel impact. We are doing this by tapping seasoned, world-class ocean technology leaders from our partner organizations to forge vital connections between Canadian ventures and key markets, partners, and investors all over the world.

At Blue Action Lab, we kicked off our inaugural Ecopreneurship program in Grand Bahama, supporting the next generation of talent for the resilience economy in our own backyard. Our Queen Conch Mariculture program expanded, both physically and team-wise, and we established new global partnerships at the Blue Economy Finance Forum in Monaco and the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France.

NYCW Founders Factory co-hosting The Maritime Decarbonisation Challenge in partnership with JPMorgan, alfa8 and Blue Action

The final stretch of 2025 was supercharged with two spectacular events at New York Climate Week, led by our talented Blue Action Accelerator joint venture partners at Founders Factory, with particular thanks to FF President George Northcott. Founders Factory co-hosted The Maritime Decarbonisation Challenge in partnership with JPMorgan, alfa8, and Blue Action, featuring leading decision-makers from across the shipping industry. The second event focused on industrial transformation, highlighting efficiencies, resilience, and emissions reductions across global supply chains.

In a year full of challenges and promise, we at Blue Action take great pride in the work accomplished alongside our many collaborators—bringing the best solutions from around the world to the geographies where they are needed most, and fostering the conditions, place by place, for those solutions to take hold in an equitable and durable way.