Why the Blue Economy and Coral Reefs Matter for the Pacific Region
What if the most powerful piece of climate infrastructure in the Pacific is not a seawall, a solar panel, or an early warning system, but a coral reef?
For Pacific Island Countries, where coastal ecosystems buffer communities from storm surge, sustain fisheries that feed families, and underpin economies that have no viable inland alternative, protecting nature is not an environmental choice, it is a climate finance and resilience decision. And it is one the Pacific has been making, at community level, long before the global development community caught up.
