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Dr Essam Yassin Mohammed, International Institute for Environment and Development
Dr Ben Milligan, Univesity College London
Prof Dan Laffoley, IUCN
Harnessing Blue Capital for
Blue Growth: why invest?
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Marine and Costal
Ecosystem Services
How to
harness these
opportunities
and attain a
resilient,
sustainable
and inclusive
ocean-based
economy?
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Marine and Coastal
Ecosystems: Benefits and threats
• Major source of
food: the main
or only source of
animal protein in
some poor
communities
• Some 45 million
directly
employed
• Up to 200 mill
indirectly
• The most traded
food commodity
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DateFisheries in crisis
The majority of
commercially/economically
important fish species are
fished beyond sustainable
levels
Market failure?
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DateValuation: what and how?
Adapted from Emerton 2006 (in Mohammed 2014)
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Benefits of marine and coastal
ecosystems to human wellbeing>2 billion people + 50% world’s major cities found within 50km
of coastal linesAccording to some studies, ocean services are worth US$23 trillion a
year - only slightly less than the world’s total GNP.
“…a cynic was a
man who knows
the price of
everything and the
value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
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5 sectors only
Aquaculture/fisheries
Coastal tourism
Blue biotechnology
Ocean energy
Seabed mining
€1,125,832,000 per year
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Investing in marine and coastal
ecosystems as economic
infrastructure [Good investment]
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A paradigm shift: Rationalising
behaviours
Socio
econom
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Management regimes (t)
How to overcome
this short-term
economic loss??
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DateInnovative financing
• Is Blue Capital “investable”?
• Expenditure to restore, maintain or enhance
• Marine/fisheries PES: (increasing interest from different groups)
• Blue bonds
• Trust funds
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Societal and Individual
net benefit
Ecological net
benefit
Political net benefit
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Resilient. Inclusive and sustainable
Blue Economy
Valuation
Incentives
Investing
Financing
Governance
Engagement
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“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean”
Arthur C. Clarke
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