This project seeks to understand the public's perception of offshore aquaculture in southern California (Santa Barbara and Venture Counties). Public perception has previously been an obstacle to implementation and the survey results informed communication and engagement strategies for Ocean Rainforest, a commercial kelp producer. Additionally, an executive summary was created and distributed to key stakeholders and interest groups.

Blue Cradle Foundation creates a short video about sea mining, including indigenous perspectives and the voices of Pacific Islanders, premiering at COP 2022. The Cook Islands could be one of the first nations to issue exploratory licenses for deep sea mining in its EEZ.

Over 600,000 metric tons of fishing gear is lost to the oceans every year, consuming up to 30% of the world's fishery stocks while causing fleets to lose billions of dollars in revenue and gear replacement costs. Blue Ocean Gear's Smart Buoys are designed with a range of sensors that allow fishers to monitor the status of their gear whether onshore or on the water, receiving alerts of anomalous conditions so they can respond immediately and operate more efficiently.

B'ZEOS is a green tech company offering sustainable, home-compostable, and bio-digestible packaging solutions made from seaweed extracts to combat plastic pollution. We are based in Norway but have opened our new lab in Spain (Barcelona) and a branch in Switzerland. B’ZEOS uses kelp since it can provide a sustainable feedstock for biopolymers through both cultivation and harvesting. The manufacturing process of the material does not use harsh chemicals and does not rely on land-based crops. B’ZEOS has been part of an incubator project with Nestle. B’ZEOS has started a second collaboration for the development of the seaweed based packaging solution. We secured funds and are looking for more investments and new industrial collaborations.

SeaForestation.Co provides deepwater solar irrigation services and equipment for replete seaweed cultivation across the oceans while augmenting seaweed value chains to meet food security needs, ecosystem life support and carbon export applications.

The city of Paraty, an important tourist spot in Brazil, has situations of high marine environment degradation, including overfishing, excessive trawling, bay pollution (lack of basic sanitation), marine environment destruction and overhunting of protected species in protected areas. This project seeks to educate community youth on the impacts of anthropogenic actions and also present sustainable solutions that can replace predatory activities and increase the fishing stock of the region through respect for protected areas.

This project carries out clean up activities and monitoring of litter and microplastics in the Sanguino River and streams near a protected coastline located in Maro-Cerro Gordo Cliffs Natural Area (Nerja and Almuñécar, Spain). Activities include cleanup and litter characterization, analysis of water samples for microplastics by infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), training citizen scientists to maintain fieldwork, and communicating project impact with local policymakers and stakeholders.

This year, to reduce their environmental impact, Mikoko Pamoja set out to will train community members to create clay pots for mangrove nurseries rather than plastic bags. Their goal is to plant 2,000 mangroves in 2022 and to continue to provide an offset of 2,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.

In order to enhance local Cook Islanders' understanding of seabed mining, Te Ipukarea Society hosted an interactive panel discussion event, 6 workshops for youth at schools, and produced a brief documentary on the threat Seabed Mining poses to the Cook Islands, which has over 5,000 views in less than one year.