The GreenWave Podcast by Synergy International Episode 62: Blue Futures Brings Ocean Stewardship to Gen Zers

In this episode, SYNI, your hostess with a green heart, turns to the world’s oceans and asks who owns them, who is wrecking them, and why a room full of university students in Portugal might have done more for its future in a single weekend than a decade of ministerial handshakes. Last week, Synergy International was a partner at the Blue Futures Conference, held at the NOVA School of Business and Economics located in Carcavelos, just outside of Lisbon. SYNI wants to remind you that the ocean economy generates over $2.5 trillion dollars a year in global GDP and supports north of a hundred million jobs. Yet only 3% of it's surface is fully protected and the UN's plan grow that protected area to 30% by 2030 is running short on time and funding. This is where Gen Z needs to show their power, not because they will be using their tuition money to fund ocean conservation, but because they will soon set the rules and implement the decisions. That's why we partnered with Blue Futures, because it was organised, planned, and run by the students themselves.