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Croatia offers budding owners and charterers a spectacular, wild and beautiful playground to explore, but it also offers ordinary Croatians an extraordinary opportunity – to own and run their own superyachts.

It’s not just superyacht owners and the superyacht industry itself that are driving the shift to more responsible yachting – superyacht destinations such as Monaco are also putting sustainability and emissions front and centre.

Initiatives driven both by yacht owners and by yacht businesses are making great strides toward a more considered environmental approach, as the Closing the Loop project at Gold Coast City Marina ably demonstrates.

When an Indian aerospace engineer and a Canadian roboticist joined forces, they showed not only what can be done with tech in yachting, but also how yachting offers opportunities for a diverse range of next-gen thinkers.

If you want a prime example of the positive impact of superyachting on a region, you need only look at Australia and the extraordinary development, driven by superyachts, of the past 20 years.

Conceived as an initiative to get the New Zealand marine industry supporting island communities and cultures across the Pacific, the Pasifika Collective is already proving its worth in the wake of the Tongan volcano disaster.

There are moves globally to hit stringent new decarbonisation goals, and the superyacht sector is no different – but pioneering builders and owners are showing that concrete action can be taken today.

New recyclable materials and construction methods being developed for yachts are leading the way to a more sustainable future – and not just for the superyacht industry.

The idea of private submersibles on superyachts is relatively new, but their popularity is growing – and they are also proving invaluable in giving scientists and researchers more access to the mysterious ocean depths.