Details
- Identification
- Pdf: HZ-01-24-006-EN-N, ISBN 978-92-9405-138-7, doi:10.2926/2145767
- Publication date
- 1 October 2024
- Author
- European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
Description
The importance of the ocean is increasingly being recognised on a global scale in terms of geopolitical balance, the maintenance of global supply chains, food security, climate change and in addressing pressing and long-lasting socioeconomic, environmental, and governance challenges.
Both the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) acknowledge the urgent need to harness global action for the ocean while concurrently considering the bottlenecks and opportunities that lie at different levels of development across Africa and Europe.
However, to date, the blue economy and ocean governance have been absent from existing AU-EU partnership.
Against this background, the European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, in partnership with the African Union, set up the Africa-Europe Strategy Group on Ocean Governance. The Africa-Europe Foundation facilitated the work of the Group.
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