Back to Blue - a new initiative to promote ocean health

A 3-year collaboration between the two organisations to contribute fresh analysis, dialogue and potential solutions around ocean pollution.

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Weekly Digest   Issue #10         Back to Blue—a new initiative to promote ocean health   At the eighth annual World Ocean Summit, Yohei Sasakawa, chair of The Nippon Foundation, and Lord Deighton, chair of The Economist Group, signed a memorandum of understanding for Back to Blue, a three-year collaboration between the two organisations to contribute fresh analysis, dialogue and potential solutions around ocean pollution.   LEARN MORE →

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