29 min

Blue Finance - Helping save our seas Euromoney Podcasts: Financing a sustainable planet

    • Investing

For generations humanity has taken more from the oceans than it puts back in. Today, man’s contribution to the seas is significant, but damaging. Overfishing has decimated entire species and what is left swims amid clouds of plastic waste so dense that it gathers in vast floating islands. Increased carbon emissions have increased sea temperatures, melting polar regions and cooking corals worldwide - by 2030 90% of coral reefs will be threatened with extinction. Can the crisis be averted?...

For generations humanity has taken more from the oceans than it puts back in. Today, man’s contribution to the seas is significant, but damaging. Overfishing has decimated entire species and what is left swims amid clouds of plastic waste so dense that it gathers in vast floating islands. Increased carbon emissions have increased sea temperatures, melting polar regions and cooking corals worldwide - by 2030 90% of coral reefs will be threatened with extinction. Can the crisis be averted?...

29 min