Ecoship is the next stage of Peace Boat’s journey to promote peace, human rights and sustainability around the world. The development has been as radical as the ship itself; the design process involved an international team bringing together expertise from a diverse range of specialties in both marine and land-based industrial sectors.
About Peace Boat
- 40 years as an NGO and social business
- 2017 Peace Nobel Prize winner as part of ICAN
- NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
- Close to 70 around-the-world cruises
- More than 30 regional voyages
- More than 80,000 participants
- Visits to over 270 ports in more than 100 countries
- Multi-generational onboard community of 1,500 participants per cruise
Peace Boat is a social business that combines the four pillars of Education, Business, Advocacy, and Travel. Our global voyages offer a unique programme of activities centred on experiential learning and intercultural communication. The income generated is channeled into future voyages as well as all of the NGO’s activities to promote peace, human rights and respect for the environment. Peace Boat began sailing in 1983, and today sails for 80-100 day global voyages three times every year, carrying approximately 1,500 passengers per voyage.
Find out more about Peace Boat. Go to peaceboat.org/english
WHY NOW? A FLAGSHIP FOR CLIMATE ACTION AROUND THE WORLD
After 40 years organising world educational and advocacy cruises on conventional passenger ship, Peace Boat is ready to take its commitment to the next level: create a ship that will embody our message, become a low-carbon cruising model for the industry and be the flagship for climate action around the world.
Ecoship will address climate action via the responsibilities of maritime transport in carbon reduction and in preventing oceans and coastal areas degradation. By integrating a set of innovative technological and managerial solutions, Ecoship will be a showcase for what the industry can do. With cruising booming particularly in Asia, it is all the more urgent that it is done on sustainable basis.
As a committed campaigner for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Ecoship will be instrumental in creating awareness and trigger action. Its four annual world cruises will create the framework for hundreds of educational programs, advocacy campaigns and applied research, as well as for the hosting of international conferences and world-class exhibitions on green technologies and climate action.
Who we are
The people behind the world’s most sustainable cruise ship
Yoshioka Tatsuya
Founder and Director
Andrés Molina
Project Manager
Rachel Armstrong
Assistant to the Director
Remy Millot
Project Coordinator
Karen Hallows
Project Coordinator
Key Advisors
Jaime Oliver
Naval architect at Oliver Design
Amory Lovins
Co-founder and Chief Scientist,
Rocky Mountain Institute
Tomas Kåberger
Professor of Industrial Energy Policy