Catching the wave of blue finance

OUR oceans have been generous to us. They generate oxygen, help protect us from the sun's heat, provide food and livelihood to millions of people, and serve humanity in myriad other ways.

In return, we are destroying these nurseries for marine life by over-harvesting fish and polluting the waters with untreated sewage and plastics.

Marine ecosystems are now threatened by extinction. Over the past 50 years, the world has lost nearly half of its coral reefs and mangrove forests, while marine populations have halved and global fish stocks depleted by a third.