The Roadmap 2050: Towards Regenerative Yachting
The environmental strategy for yachting
The Roadmap 2050 is a compass to navigate together through what are, unchartered waters.
Yachting can and should be pro-active and openly commit to net-zero, by latest 2050 and coordination and collaboration is key to accomplish this. Developed through collaboration, following the Life Cycle Approach and based on a unique data exercise, the Roadmap covers every stage of a yacht’s life cycle—Design, Build, Operation, and Refit—with clear, measurable targets set in five-year increments. The Roadmap provides a path towards net-zero for both product and process.
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The Roadmap to 2050 is designed to serve as a compass for navigating uncharted waters—together. It outlines a collective, coordinated approach with quantified goals that engage and empower every stakeholder in the yachting industry. By committing to this roadmap, yachting companies can future-proof their operations, not only advancing decarbonisation but also moving towards a regenerative future.
Beyond regulartory thresholds
While the Roadmap goes beyond current regulatory thresholds, it remains voluntary—empowering the industry to chart its own course.
This sector-specific environmental strategy, gives clear directions for companies and individuals. Through quantified targets priorities are set and guidance provided where to work towards and what to focus on. It is aimed to spark innovation, forward thinking, competition and collaboration.
The 2025 baseline was defined through data gathered from Designers, Builders, Operators, and Refit yards. This data was used to estimate the current status and set proportional targets, measured in percentage reductions rather than absolute numbers, for each life cycle stage. This marks the first step in a process that will become increasingly detailed with broader industry participation.
Specific stakeholder group targets
Select your stakeholder group below to view the specific targets set out by the Roadmap 2050.
Going beyond reduction
The Roadmap visualises the current estimated negative impact division among the four life cycle stages in 2025 below the x-axis, and their trajectories towards 2050.
Above the x-axis is the mirror, representing the required positive impact investment in carbon sequestration, biodiversity restoration and contaminated soil & water, to neutralise the negative impact. To facilitate effective compensation efforts, the Ocean Assist programme offers a structured pathway for investing in ocean restoration. This yachting-specific blue finance mechanism is set to maximise financial and non-financial resources to support nature-based solutions and aid the global effort to restore ecological impacts. This programme enables the yachting community to make measurable, regenerative contributions to global ocean agendas—redefining the relationship between economic growth and ocean well-being.
The collective path forward
To effectively track progress, yachting needs a centralised, standardised data monitoring system.
This system should be designed for collective benefit—allowing participants to track their own progress, benchmark it against their peer group and as such contribute to monitor the overall sector trajectory toward net-zero.
Selecting the right KPIs, determining the scope for the data submission to enable comparison, utilising existing sources, and setup a frequent data collection mechanism for monitoring is what needs to happen within 2025 with a critical mass of industry players.