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The Ocean Is Not Fragmented. Power Is.

On 16-18 June in Mombasa, the Our Ocean Conference met on African soil for the first time, and over 100 governments, businesses and civil society organisations announced 320 new commitments valued at $6.4 billion to advance ocean conservation, sustainable fisheries, climate resilience and the blue economy. I have sat in enough such rooms to know the applause is not the test. Driving back along the coast afterwards, I kept turning over a thought that fits no panel agenda: the ocean is not fragmented: our power over it is. The sea moves as one system. Our institutions arrive carved into ministries, budgets, […] The post The Ocean Is Not Fragmented. Power Is. appeared first on African Arguments.

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