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Our New Goal in 2024

After five years since winning our first award at the UK’s leading sustainable event, the PEA awards, the Clear Ocean Pact is evolving in 2024…. We have always viewed ‘being sustainable’ as the global impact a yacht has on its environment and the people within its ecosystem, which are required for it to operate successfully […]

Richard Orme
Founder

Shining the light on blue carbon

Rachel Goult is Managing Director of Yacht Offset Carbon, a specialised environmental service company established to address the greenhouse gas emissions impact of the yachting industry. In our latest blog, Rachel explores the concept of ‘blue carbon’, the importance of  ‘blue carbon credits’, and the barriers still to overcome in gaining recognition for vital blue […]

Rachel Goult
Managing Director, Yacht Carbon Offset

Spotlight on….Environmental Training for Yacht Crew

Environmental Training for Yacht Crew, or the ETYC, was set up in 2019 with a vision to make the yachting industry more sustainable. They provide training and mentoring for yacht crews, offering adaptable solutions to that are easily incorporated into day-to-day yacht operations. By focusing on the everyday habits of crew, they hope to inspire […]

Beth Marsden
Palma Ambassador

Microplastics: The smallest things have the biggest impact

We hear about microplastics all the time, but what are they, and what impact are they having on our natural environment? Guest blogger Gemma Harris explains why microplastic pollution is one of the most urgent environmental emergencies of our time, and how the yachting industry can take action to help eliminate the microplastic that is […]

Gemma Harris
Guest Blogger

Coronavirus: The experiences of a crew in lockdown

We are living in unprecedented times and people from all corners of the globe have seen a dramatic change to their way of life amidst the coronavirus – COVID-19 – pandemic. The yachting community are no exception. We are in a constant state of change, encountering new challenges every day, but we are also making […]

Kailey Nolan
Communications Manager

Clear Ocean Pact wins eco-champion award!

Clear Ocean Pact has been awarded a P.E.A Award in recognition of our work pioneering change for the good of our oceans.  On 13th November 2019, The Clear Ocean Pact team was presented with the P.E.A (People. Environment. Achievement.) Award in the travel category, at an immersive green-carpet event on London’s Greenwich Peninsula. We joined […]

Kailey Nolan
Communications Manager

Spotlight on… The Green Stew

Every month we shine a spotlight on some of the environmental pioneers in yachting and beyond who have adopted our PACT in their mission to take on ocean plastic pollution. This month, we speak to Eco Yacht Stewardess Lauren Ryburn, otherwise known as ‘The Green Stew’. Lauren talks to Clear Ocean Pact about how she […]

Kailey Nolan
Communications Manager

How to inspire a plastic free revolution

After 10 years in the business, Yacht Chef Alexis Garrison has witnessed the tides of change in attitudes towards plastic within the yachting industry. So we asked her to share her unique perspective and that of the superyacht crews who are working to ignite a plastic-free revolution. A GROWING INDUSTRY  With over 50,000 yacht crew […]

Alexis Garrison
USVI Volunteer

A pact for the ocean: My Green Pod feature

Clear Ocean Pact has been featured in a special issue of My Green Pod magazine. The  'Restoration Revolution' was distributed with The Guardian on 6th September 2019, and focuses on embedding restoration into every customer transaction to fix some of our most pressing environmental issues. 

Kailey Nolan
Communications Manager

Helping to change the mindset of an industry

Since November 2018, Clear Ocean Pact has been working to unite the superyacht industry behind one single mission: To reduce it’s dependency on single-use plastic. How? Through the power of the individual.

Gemma Harris
Guest Blogger

Cutting out plastic: It makes economic sense

Eliminating plastic products such as water bottles and packaging saves time, labour, cost, storage and more. Using viable alternatives to single-use plastics is not just the right thing to do. It’s the SMART thing to do.

Richard Orme
Founder