Mercuria CSR Report 2024 - Flipbook - Page 23
PLANET 2024
PARTNERSHIPS
HUB OCEAN PARTNERSHIP
Mercuria and HUB Ocean have had an important strategic
partnership since 2021. HUB Ocean is based in Oslo, Norway
and is a non-profit, technological foundation that is
dedicated to unlocking and sharing ocean data. It is the first
thematic Centre dedicated to the ocean.
HUB Ocean’s core product, the Ocean Data Platform (ODP),
allows aggregation of unprecedented volumes of diverse
ocean data sets. ODP itself is a global, open-source and
integrated digital data ecosystem providing new and faster
insight for the ocean we need and want.
This partnership brings many synergies by combining
Mercuria’s expertise in the global maritime industry with
HUB Ocean’s expertise as an international provider of
market-leading ocean and maritime technological
solutions. For example, experts from Hub Ocean and
Mercuria participated together in the Summit of the Villars
Institute, a Swiss foundation that aims to accelerate the
transition to a Net Zero and Nature Positive economy
through intergenerational collaboration and systems
leadership.
photos of images of the ocean, along with geographic
location data, and share it with researchers and scientists
through the ODP. This provides access of real-time, remote
data to researchers and scientists to map wildlife
populations and identify migration patterns, as well as study
the effects of marine waste on ecosystems. For NGOs, it can
help them raise awareness about endangered marine
wildlife and high-waste areas. Citizen Sea is already available
on Apple Store and Google Play.
To change the fate of the ocean, we need to harness the
power of Citizen Sea. Achieving ocean health is a massive
collaborative effort that will require giving ocean citizens a
greater say.
We continue to collaborate with HUB Ocean on newer
versions of the Citizen Sea app and other exciting projects.
In 2023, Minerva Bunkering sponsored Citizen Sea, a HUB
Ocean app that seafarers and other users can use to upload
We want to give them the ability to share their observations and help change the fate
of the oceans. We know from our employees that there is a very strong wish to
contribute to marine sustainability
Victoria Attwood Scott | Head of Corporate Responsibility & Compliance, Mercuria
EARTH INNOVATION INSTITUTE PARTNERSHIP
Mercuria is proud to be partnering with The Earth
Innovation Institute (EII). The EII helps states and provinces
in tropical forest regions to shift to low-emission, naturepositive, socially-inclusive development.
EII adopts a comprehensive, long-term strategy to achieve
this goal, focusing on the idea that increasing awareness
across different sectors within states or provinces about the
benefits of this shift can stimulate the necessary collective
action and innovative public policies.
EII’s global team of 35 experts in rural development, carbon
markets, geospatial analysis and public policy has helped
fifteen states and provinces in Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia
and Peru begin their transitions to climate- and naturefriendly development. EII was chosen as the lead partner by
ten states and provinces in these countries who are
members of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force
to support the participatory design of low-emission
development plans and investment strategies.
EII, incorporated as a non-profit charity in California, is one of
the co-authors of the regional,
