📝 usncan Note: Monaco Yacht Show To Feature Blue Wake™ Sustainability Solutions
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View of Port Hercule during the 2024 Monaco Yacht Show, where Blue Wake™ will put the focus on sustainability in the yachting industry. Partners with the Water Revolution Foundation and marine product and service manufacturers who have proven sustainable solutions will be featured exhibitors at this year’s show, running from September 24-27, 2025. Photographer: Jeremy Suyker/Bloomberg
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Yachting and sustainability were once strange bedfellows, but these days, designers, yachtbuilders, and yacht owners are very interested in ways to dovetail this luxury industry with ecologically sound solutions that minimize yachting footprints. The Blue Wake™ program will showcase sustainability in a big way at one of the world’s most prestigious yachting platforms.
Throughout the Monaco Yacht Show taking place September 24-27, 2025, the Blue Wake™ initiative will highlight shipyards, tenders, water toy manufacturers, yachting equipment manufacturers, and service providers for their practical and environmentally sustainable innovations by the Water Revolution Foundation.
The program, sponsored by the Water Revolution Foundation and Siemens Energy, will feature more than 50 exhibitors that have navigated rigorous criteria and are recognized for their credible and effective solutions. A list of the exhibitors participating in the initiative can be found on the Monaco Yacht Show Blue Wake™ web page.
Yachting Depends On Healthy Oceans
This beautiful scene in the Maldives represents the beauty that Water Revolution Foundation wants to protect through the efforts of the superyacht industry participants in Blue Wake™ at this year’s Monaco Yacht Show.
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At the November 2018 Superyacht Forum in Amsterdam, a group of superyacht industry leaders convened to christen a collaborative effort aimed at encouraging sustainable practices aimed at maintaining the health of the ocean playgrounds that superyachts frequent. The Water Revolution Foundation was launched
Founding members included Henk de Vries III of Feadship/De Vries Scheepsbouw as Chair, Vienna Eleuteri of EULabor as Initiator and Vice-chair, Philippe Briand of Philippe Briand Design and Martin Redmayne of The Superyacht Group as Board members, Robert van Tol as Secretary General, and Louis van Beurden as Treasurer.
Today, a growing list of impressive partners includes anchor partners Lürssen, Feadship, Heesen, Damen, Benetti, Sanlorenzo, Oceanco, 37 corporate partners, seven strategic partners, and 14 individual partners, with Fraser Yachts as a project partner. All partners follow the mission of the organization, contributing to support the organization and its progress.
Measuring Progress Targeting The Net Zero Goal
The ambitious plans of the Water Revolution Foundation show solid progress on this graphic toward their Roadmap to 2050 net zero goals.
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At its third meeting of strategic business leaders this past June, the organization published its Roadmap to 2050, aiming to reach net zero by that date. The report, published in five-year increments, engages yachting stakeholders in the way they approach the life cycle of yachts through design, build, operation and refit.
This year’s meeting achieved the significant milestone of moving from awareness to implementation, acting to embed regenerative principles across all stages of the yachting lifecycle. In the Three-Year Plan, published on August 27, 2025, the Water Revolution Foundation notes ambitious goals for the period, including a shipyard scoring system designed to rate benchmarks in the yachtbuilding process, establishing a network of methanol fueling stations in appropriate locations, an expanded YETI to include build materials aiming at a full life cycle assessment, and and a knowledge and resource hub to be used for open source sharing, awareness, and education.
Luxury yachts in the harbor at dusk ahead of the Monaco Yacht Show at Port Hercules in Monaco. Photographer: Jeremy Suyker/Bloomberg
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The Monaco Yacht Show schedule includes conferences and round table discussions in the conference hall. Industry leaders will give presentations on innovation and sustainability. At the show’s pre-function, the Grand Opening Night, there will be a Blue Wake™ awards presentation recognizing the companies that have come up with solutions that are “technically robust and truly effective.” The fete will be held at Le Méridien Beach Plaza in Monaco, and is by invitation only.
