A transparent pathway to ocean recovery
Ocean Assist is the world’s first blue investment programme for measurable, science-backed marine regeneration.
What is Ocean Assist?
Ocean Assist is effectively the Restore pillar of the Roadmap 2050. It enables the yachting community and anyone who depends on healthy oceans, to support measurable marine restoration projects while contributing to verified climate action. Ocean Assist is a collective, science-led approach to ocean recovery, combining structural industry commitments, transparent tracking, and guidance from leading marine scientists to turn investment into measurable impact.
Regenerative Contribution Units (RCU) drive ecological gains through quality hectares, restore biodiversity, and build habitat resilience.
Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) represent 23 tonnes of CO₂ removed via high-integrity nature-based solutions projects.
Together, 1 OAU (Ocean Assist Unit) addresses both climate and nature by supporting projects that restore marine ecosystems while delivering verified environmental benefits.
How it works
Step 1Contact the Water Revolution Foundation team
Contact us in the button below to discuss your sustainability goals. Our team can help determine the appropriate number of Ocean Assist Units (OAUs) based on your specific objective, including:
- Offsetting travel-related emissions for events, conferences, or business activities
- Supporting ESG and sustainability commitments
- Contributing to ocean regeneration and marine conservation initiatives
- Balancing emissions associated with yacht operations, charter activities, or corporate events
- Developing a tailored contribution strategy aligned with your organization’s environmental goals
Step 2Create Your eCO2care Registry Account
Visit the Ocean Assist Registry: https://eco2care.org/OceanAssist
- Select Sign In at the top of the page and submit a registration request.
- Under Request Type, choose Account Creation Request for Buyer.
You will be asked to provide:
- Company legal name
- VAT number
- Tax ID code (only for Italian citizens)
- Company address
- Company email address
- Contact person name
- Identification card
Once your request has been reviewed and approved, you will receive your login credentials by email.
This is a one-time registration process.
Step 3Complete payment
Water Revolution Foundation will provide an invoice or Stripe payment link corresponding to your selected number of Ocean Assist Units.
Once payment is received, Water Revolution Foundation will prepare your Ocean Assist transaction within the registry.
Step 4Approve your contribution
- You will receive an email notification from the eCO2care Registry.
- Log in to your account, review the transaction, and click “Accept.”
This step typically takes less than one minute.
Step 5Receive your certificates
Following approval and registry verification, official certificates will be issued and recorded within the registry.
You will receive:
- Ocean Assist Certificate
- Supporting verification certificates
- Documentation of your contribution to marine ecosystem regeneration and climate action
Water Revolution Foundation manages the technical registry process on your behalf, making participation straightforward while ensuring full transparency and traceability.
Our regenerative projects
The yachting community is uniquely positioned to lead. Our marine conservation portfolio channels industry resources into nature-based solutions, protecting ocean values, restoring biodiversity, and safeguarding the waters we depend on for generations to come.
Why is this important for yachting?
The yachting industry depends on healthy oceans. Ocean Assist provides a practical way for yacht owners, charter companies, shipyards, suppliers, and industry stakeholders to contribute directly to marine regeneration while demonstrating measurable environmental stewardship.
Ways to give
Offset your charter
Link a verified OAU contribution to every voyage. Calculate by distance, days at sea, or vessel size.
Charter add-on
Offer guests an OAU contribution at booking. A per-charter levy that turns every trip into an act of stewardship.
Offset your refit
Bundle OAUs into the cost of a new build or major refit. Sustainability built in from the keel up.
Off-set your travel
Offset your travel with OAU calculated to the exact carbon footprint.
Annual operations offset
Set a fixed annual carbon budget for operations and retire the corresponding OAU each year, giving you a clean, auditable sustainability baseline.
Hotel load while berthed
If not on shore power, generators running for AC, lighting, galley etc. are fully calculable and offsetable with OAU.
Fuel bunkering offset
Commit to offsetting 100% of fuel bunkered fleet-wide, making every refuel a measurable sustainability milestone tracked in your annual impact report.
Birthday & milestone
Mark an anniversary, graduation, or christmas donation with a verified act of ocean regeneration.
Qualified charitable distribution
Make a tax-free gift directly from your IRA and satisfy your Required Minimum Distribution at the same time.
Backed by science
Aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals 6, 13, 14 and 15.
Certified Ocean Assist under ISO 14065 and ISO 17029, verifying that its greenhouse gas validation processes meet robust scientific and operational standards. This certification gives yacht owners and operators confidence in the programme’s credibility.
Recognised Ocean Assist as an official Voluntary Commitment at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, placing the leisure maritime sector on the global stage as a credible, science-backed ocean regeneration initiative.
Developed Ocean Assist’s scientific protocols and monitoring frameworks, ensuring every restoration project is measurable, reliable, and scalable.
Formally partnered with Ocean Assist to provide peer review of restoration projects and data validation, bridging academia and the yachting industry in support of UN Sustainable Development Goal 14.
Serves as the accredited climate registry where all Ocean Assist transactions are recorded, ensuring transparency, traceability, and integrity throughout the project cycle.
Testimonials
Dr Vienna Eleuteri, Programme Architect, Ocean AssistThe future of our oceans depends on moving beyond mitigation and toward regeneration. Ocean Assist provides a practical pathway for industries and individuals to contribute to measurable, science-based ocean recovery.
Announcements and news
Water Revolution Foundation Launches its Ocean Assist Programme into the Yachting Community at the 2025 Monaco Yacht Show.
Water Revolution Foundation brings the leisure maritime industry to UN Ocean Conference
We are attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice.
Water Revolution Foundation has received a special accreditation for the 2025 UN Ocean Conference.
The second webinar on the Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMA) programme, hosted by Switzerland for the Oceans, will take place on Tuesday, 26 November, 17:00 - 18:00 CET and dive deeper into critical mechanisms for ecological renewal and ocean conservation.
We are honoured to be involved with this year's COP28 UAE for the session - A Regenerative Blue Economy as Means to Harmonizing Climate Action: Post-2030 framework beyond sustainability.