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Why Is The Blue Economy Concept Important For Sustainable Development and Economic Growth?

The Blue Economy concept promotes sustainable development and economic growth through the protection and sustainable use of ocean resources. Oceans drive significant global economic activity through industries like fishing and tourism, but many fish stocks are overfished while climate change and pollution threaten marine ecosystems. Conserving oceans supports the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 14 and is important because oceans regulate climate, support biodiversity, and provide food and livelihoods for over a billion people worldwide.

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Why Is The Blue Economy Concept Important For Sustainable Development and Economic Growth?

The Blue Economy concept promotes sustainable development and economic growth through the protection and sustainable use of ocean resources. Oceans drive significant global economic activity through industries like fishing and tourism, but many fish stocks are overfished while climate change and pollution threaten marine ecosystems. Conserving oceans supports the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 14 and is important because oceans regulate climate, support biodiversity, and provide food and livelihoods for over a billion people worldwide.

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Why is the Blue Economy concept important for sustainable

development and economic growth?

Oceans protect biodiversity, provides food, jobs, drive economic


growth, keep the planet cool, and absorb about 30% of global CO2
emission. At least 3-5% of global GPD (Gross Domestic Product) is
derived from oceans but their overall health is reaching a tipping
point. Close to a third of fish stocks are overfished, climate change
affects coastal and marine ecosystems, and unbridled development in
the coastal zone is causing erosion and marine pollution. Business as
usual will have great negative environmental and social impacts,
which are expected to disproportionally affect vulnerable groups of
the population, particularly women and girls. This is reflected in
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 14), which calls to conserve and
sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable
development. Not only do they help to buffer the impacts of climate
change, these delicate ecosystems also provide habitats for millions of
species, more than half the oxygen we breathe and food for more than
a billion people. Essentially, our survival depends on healthy seas.

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