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Scaling Investment for Africa’s Sustainable Blue Economy

LONDON – Despite carrying 80% of the world’s trade, absorbing 30% of its carbon-dioxide emissions, and providing food security for almost three billion people, the global blue economy (oceans and waterways) is suffering from acute underinvestment, and nowhere more so than in Africa. In the face of heightened economic volatility and tightening financial

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