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Did you know that UN SDG 14: Life Below Water is the most underfunded? Or that the economic value of a great whale in the ocean is $3 million US dollars? Martin Koehring, head of Economist Impact’s World Oceans Initiative, joins us to chat about how the ocean and emerging blue economy is a solution to achieving all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
→ Episode show notes
→ World Oceans Initiative: https://ocean.economist.com
→ “The Ocean and the UN Sustainable Development Goals” Feature: https://impact.economist.com/ocean/ocean-sustainable-development-goals/
→ Follow Economist Impact on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/economist-impact/
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