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Out of the Blue - The Value of Seagrasses to the Environment and to People

Seagrasses are one of the most valuable coastal and marine ecosystems on the planet, providing a range of critical environmental, economic and social benefits. They provide food and livelihoods to hundreds of millions of people, and they support rich biodiversity, with their sediments constituting one of the planet’s most efficient stores of carbon. However coastal development and population growth, rising pollution and climate change, are threatening the survival of this vital ecosystem.

Preconditions for a Blue Economy

The term Blue Economy has become increasingly used over the past decade, despite its lack of definition, with a multitude of agents and agencies finding the name acceptable to frame their ‘economy’ strategies, regardless of the hue. There are also many sceptics, given the long succession of let-downs since the 1980s such as when a similarly attractive term, sustainable development, was coined and supposed to meet economic, social and environmental objectives but in practice mainly focused on the economy at the expense of the environment.

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IUCN invites you to submit a Proposal for the Preparation of GCF Full Proposal Documents for the Melanesia Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Resilience Programme...The successful consultants will have a team of people to conduct feasibility studies and climate studies to write