Sea change: Scaling ocean impact
Momentum Stage
For decades, the ocean has been climate's most overlooked asset — absorbing heat, generating oxygen, and bearing damage quietly while the conversation happened elsewhere. That is changing. A new generation of founders is building commercial businesses from and for the ocean: removing carbon from the water column, replacing plastic packaging with seaweed, and creating the industrial feedstocks of a post-fossil economy. Four ocean entrepreneurs share what it takes to scale solutions that work with the ocean's natural systems — and make the case that the world's largest ecosystem is also the world's most underinvested climate opportunity.