"My vision is that every popular boating destination will be able to supply sustainable fuels for existing boats, to drastically cut emissions right now, as well as fast charging to electric boats, creating a positive spiral of electric boat adoption, as existing boats are gradually replaced."

Karl-Oskar Tjernström
Fossil Free Marine, Co-founder and CEO

"The way towards sustainability is a real challenge for this industry: boats are complex products, in which different technologies and materials coexist. The high level of customization and craftsmanship, which are pride of this sector, make the process mapping challenging. Nevertheless, sustainability is finally at the heart of the development strategies for many brands. The shift towards a more sustainable boating can only go through innovation: a responsibility, but also a great opportunity for a sector that trough magnificent objects make customers’ dreams come true."

Francesca Goi
Independent Consultant

„Our goal is to use our creativity, innovation-driven thinking, and extensive fluid dynamics knowledge to improve the nautical and maritime industries, to make them more efficient from an energy point of view, and ultimately decarbonize them through effective design and optimization, foiling for small and medium crafts, and development of alternative 0-emission propulsion systems for large vessels.“

„Our goal is to accelerate decarbonisation for marine industries by creating sustainably-sourced and scalable advanced fuels, that can be used as a direct replacement to diesel based marine fuels, and help boat owners and operators to seamlessly cut their emissions today – without the need for new infrastructure, switching fleets or retrofits.“

„As challenges surrounding ocean health and climate breakdown become increasingly evident, more collaborative effort across the board is needed to help the nautical tourism industry better serve its local and wider communities. This includes understanding and addressing harmful impacts, better resource efficiency, employing green infrastructure, facilitating public access to the ocean, promoting more diversity in the workplace and taking steps to develop new nautical activities such as marine science tourism.“

„Innovation is crucial for the entire Italian marine industry in order to maintain and further enhance the characteristics of quality in design, excellence in boatbuilding know-how and strong focus on environmental issues, which allow our yachts to be appreciated globally by increasingly sustainability-conscious users."

„The transformation and innovation for a sustainable boating industry can be accelerated by developing the venture capital market size for the sector. Focus should be put on the cooperation with other blue economy sectors as well as on the capacity building for investors and SMEs.“

„For the sustainability of the sector we need to ensure: design for circularity, financing of end-of-life management and treatment, and synergies with other sectors for recycling."