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Finance is crucial to making fishing and aquaculture sustainable
In this article, she explains how financial institutions can rdrive a sustainable transition in the fishing and aquaculture industry while reducing their own financial risks.
IIGF expert Julia Qian Mao, attending”Blue Future with Sustainable Blue Finance Forum”
Finance is an important tool to promote sustainable development of the seafood industry. Against the backdrop of rapid development of green finance, and increased attention towards ocean-related industries, “blue finance” has become an emerging field. This report approaches the issue from the industrial finance perspective to explore how financial products and services provided to the seafood industry, i.e. “seafood finance”, can contribute to its sustainable development.
EXPERT SEMINAR FOR THE NEW BLUE FINANCE PROJECT: Sustainable Fisheries Finance
On 11th Jan, IIGF and WWOn 11th Jan, IIGF and WWF-China held an online expert seminar, serving as a kick-off meeting of the new Project launched in partnership with WWF: “Development of the Sustainable Fisheries Finance in China. The project aims to conduct a baseline study of the landscape of the Chinese fishery industry finance and develop a roadmap to guide the financial flow toward a more sustainable future and identify and analyze the financial risks that may arise from unsustainable fishery production.
Blue Finance Case Study – The Republic of Seychelles’ innovative use of Debt for Nature Swap promotes marine protection
Seychelles is the first country in the world to use DNS tools for marine protection projects. In March 2015, after three years of stakeholder consultation, the TNC announced its support for this groundbreaking agreement between the Republic of Seychelles and the Paris Club. In this agreement, the Seychelles government committed to increasing the proportion of its national marine protected area from only 0.04% of the exclusive economic zone to 30% by 2020.