Harnessing blue capital for blue growth: Why invest?
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DOCUMENT TITLE 1 Author name Date Author name Date Author name Date 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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DOCUMENT TITLE 1
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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
ic g
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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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