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Mission

Imagine

Inspiring
Generations

“The Ocean sustains all life. It is time to Govern it that way.”

TogetherForTheBetterGood (TFTBG) is a Blue Governance advisory working at the intersection of Ocean Rights, human transformation, and financial structuring. We advise (semi)governments, NGOs, investors, and corporations on building governance frameworks that are rights-based, financially sound, and built to last.

We started with a dream — a world where Blue Carbon ecosystems are thriving, where the communities living alongside them have food, dignity, and decent work, and where the ocean is governed with the rights and respect it deserves.

That dream has not changed. But our understanding of what it takes to make it real has deepened. From Blue Carbon into Blue Economy. From Blue Economy into Blue Governance. Read more…

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited whereas imagination embraces the entire world. Stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert Einstein
Meeting the challenges of this century requires updating our economic logic and operating system. From an obsolete “ego-system” focused entirely on the well-being of oneself to an eco-system awareness that emphasizes the well-being of the whole.
Otto Scharmer, MIT Presencing Institute
During COP 27: “…Which is about the 30 % absorption capacity of the ocean…. If it hadn’t been for the absorption capacity of the oceans the average temperature on land would be 50C today and actually it is 13C. So it would have been Hothouse Planet Earth..”

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Dr. Rhian-Mari Thomas, CEO Green Financing Institute
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates

Our vision

We are dreaming of a world where the ocean and its Ecosystems are thriving and poverty diminishes to zero, food self-sufficiency increases, and decent work and economic sustainable growth become a given to the people and the region they are inhabiting.

BLUE GOVERNANCE

Governance

Blue Governance

The ocean absorbs nearly a third of all carbon emissions and sustains the livelihoods of over three billion people. It is home to ecosystems — mangroves, seagrasses, coral reefs, salt marshes — that protect coastlines, nurture biodiversity, and store carbon at a scale no technology can replicate.

And yet the governance frameworks that determine how the ocean is used, protected, and financed remain fragmented, under-resourced, and disconnected from the communities and living systems they are meant to serve.
The science is not the bottleneck. The financing is not the bottleneck.

Governance is.
This is what we work on.

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Blue Carbon Ecosystem

Facts

50
% Ocean Carbon Sediments
3
billion people
5
% Global Land Area
2
% ocean

Services

Services

what do we do?

TogetherForTheBetterGood is a Blue Governance advisory organisation. We work at the intersection of ocean governance, financial structuring, leadership development, and cross-sector collaboration. Our services can be provided individually or in combination:

 

  • – Blue Governance Advisory
  • – Coaching & Stakeholder Management
  • – Project Governance & Finance
  • – Cross-Sector Initiatives

 

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Partners

CLIENTS

WHO DO WE
WORK WITH?

We work with national and regional (semi)governments designing ocean governance policy, international NGOs and conservation bodies implementing Blue Carbon and Blue Economy projects, development finance institutions and impact investors structuring ocean economy capital, private companies seeking credible and rights-based pathways into nature markets, and coastal community organisations whose voice and ownership is central to lasting outcomes.

Insights

Insights

Stay Informed And Inspired

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Contact

Promise, we won't
stay silent

TogetherForTheBetterGood LDA
Beco do Pinhal 5
2445-302 Pataias
Portugal
Número fiscal: 517648636
Certidão Permanente 5212-7514-2029
+351 968 895 915

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