Ocean Central is a data-driven platform helping users explore ocean health, track progress toward global ocean goals, and better understand the value marine ecosystems provide to society.
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The ocean is one of the planet's most important economic and ecological systems, yet much of its value remains invisible in traditional decision-making. Ocean Central was created to change that.
Developed by Wave, the platform brings together scientific data, interactive visualizations, and storytelling to make complex ocean information accessible to policymakers, investors, researchers, and the public.
Blue Green Future supported the development of Ocean Central by helping translate ocean science into actionable insights.
Ocean Central helps make the value of living ocean systems visible to the people making decisions about their future.
A central challenge in ocean conservation is that many of the benefits provided by healthy marine ecosystems are not reflected in economic systems.
Blue Green Future contributed to the development and validation of carbon valuation methodologies for mangroves, seagrasses, and saltmarshes, providing a foundation for Ocean Central's ecosystem valuation tools. This work was led by our co-founder and CEO Ralph Chami, who serves as Wave's Chief Economist.
These methodologies help quantify the climate benefits of coastal ecosystems while demonstrating their potential role in nature-positive economic development.
While carbon storage is an important component of ecosystem value, it represents only part of the picture.
Blue Green Future helped develop content and analysis highlighting the broader benefits generated by living ocean systems, including biodiversity support, fisheries productivity, coastal protection, nutrient cycling, and contributions to local livelihoods.
Data alone does not drive action. Blue Green Future contributed narrative content throughout the platform to help contextualize scientific information and communicate why ocean health matters to economies, communities, and future generations.
The result is a platform that not only tracks the condition of ocean ecosystems, but also helps users start to understand the embedded financial value within them.
Ocean Central provides a new way to explore and understand ocean health. By combining rigorous science with accessible storytelling and ecosystem valuation, the platform helps make the benefits of living marine systems visible to decision-makers.
As efforts to protect and regenerate the ocean continue to grow, tools like Ocean Central can help bridge the gap between ecological knowledge and economic decision-making, supporting a future where healthy oceans are recognized as critical natural infrastructure and productive assets.
The Rainfall Engine of Our Planet
The northern Amazon is the world’s last contiguous stretch of intact rainforest, generating 20% of global rainfall and 70% of Latin America’s precipitation. These “flying rivers” — massive water vapor systems produced by the forest — sustain global food security, weather stability, and biodiversity. Their loss would carry catastrophic consequences for climate, economies, and societies.
In-country partner Gaia Amazonas, in collaboration with national governments and the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO).
Blue Green Future is conducting valuations of the last flying river and ecosystem services of the forest, structuring investment vehicles, and supporting regional policy solutions to ensure the protection and restoration of this vital system. BGF works closely with Gaia Amazonas and governments to mobilize investment and align strategies with international frameworks.
Once numbering 60 million across North America, buffalo shaped entire ecosystems and cultures. Today, the Buffalo Nations Fund (BNF) is pioneering a replicable Indigenous-led model to restore buffalo to ancestral lands, unlock new classes of nature-backed credits, and generate long-term ecological and economic resilience.
Buffalo Nations Fund (Indigenous-led)
Blue Green Future supports the Fund’s tribal projects in quantifying ecosystem services and carbon yields, structuring sovereign carbon securities, and designing replicable investment frameworks that align with Indigenous sovereignty, global climate finance and the global biodiversity framework.
Turning the world's largest seagrass meadow into a global climate asset
The Bahamas is home to one of the largest seagrass meadows on Earth, a natural climate solution with immense potential for carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection, and coastal resilience. By restoring and safeguarding this vast ecosystem, the project contributes directly to climate mitigation, sustainable development, and resilient island economies.
Government of the Bahamas
Blue Green Future is working with local partners who map, restore, and protect seagrass ecosystems through cutting-edge science and community engagement. Building off the baselines established using verified carbon methodologies and state-of-the-art MRV technology, BGF projects the carbon yields, produces the valuation, and structures forward credits and offtakes for institutional investors.
