Second marina certification in Asia
September 2024 Issue
International environmental certification “Blue Flag”
The Blue Flag is an international environmental certification system established by the international NGO FEE (Fund for International Environmental Education), headquartered in Denmark, that evaluates the world's most sustainable beaches, and is a program related to all 17 of the SDGs. There are 5,121 beaches in the world that have been awarded the Blue Flag (only 14% of these are marinas, making it a tough competition). There are 14 marinas in Japan (there are only two marinas in Asia).
SPACE KEY POINT RIVIERA ZUSHI MARINA
Since becoming the first in Asia to receive this certification in 2022
Continuing to receive the Blue Flag for the third consecutive year
As a Blue Flag marina, Riviera can certify its vessels for playing an active role in protecting the marine environment.
Fly the Blue Flag on your boat and join Riviera in working for a beautiful ocean and future. For more information, please contact the Harbor Master.
Riviera is committed to passing on a truly rich ocean to future generations.
We are working to restore seaweed beds, which will contribute to decarbonizing the ocean.
Riviera Zushi Marina and Riviera Seabornia Marina, the only two sustainable marinas in Asia to have been awarded the Blue Flag, have been working on restoring seaweed beds since 2. This is the first such initiative in Japan within a marina, and is part of the Blue Carbon Belt® project advocated by Riviera to expand seaweed beds in a belt-like shape.
As always discussed at the LOVE OCEAN Symposium, the environmental problems surrounding the seas of Japan are not limited to marine litter. Seaweed beds, the forests of the sea where fish lay their eggs and grow, are decreasing due to global warming and other factors, and the so-called marine desertification, or "shore denudation," is progressing rapidly. This has a serious impact on the marine ecosystem, and there are fears that in the future, fish will no longer be served at dinner tables. Alarm bells are being sounded worldwide. And Sagami Bay, right in front of us, is no exception. Blue carbon ecosystems, which absorb CO2 in the sea, fix carbon for a longer period of time and about 10 times more than terrestrial ecosystems, so the restoration of seaweed beds can greatly contribute to decarbonization. At Riviera, we are working on the restoration of seaweed beds to protect the rich seas that are the source of the earth and to pass them on to future generations. Although the restoration of seaweed beds is a series of difficulties, we hope to first expand the "Blue Carbon Belt®" to Sagami Bay, and in the future, the entire Japanese archipelago will be covered in the Blue Carbon Belt®, and we hope to become a country with truly rich seas. We will move forward hand in hand with all of you who love the ocean.
