Catalysing Ocean Finance and its two companion volumes are intended for government policy makers tasked with creating incentives for the protection, restoration and sustainable development of coastal and ocean resources vital to the economic future of the world’s coastal nations. Volume I of “Catalysing Ocean Finance” summarises, through a series of six case studies, the effectiveness of each of these instruments in catalysing financial flows and presents options for scaling them up to address present and future threats to coastal and ocean resources. Volume I endeavors to capture in as concise a manner as possible some key lessons of the last 20 years in the field of sustainable coast and ocean management.
