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  • 2022 World Economic Circular Economy Forum Plastics: From a linear problem to circular solutions

    This forum will take place on Thursday, December 8, 2022, 7:00 – 9:00 am (DC).

  • 2022 World Economic Circular Economy Forum Plastics: From a linear problem to circular solutions

    2022 World Economic Circular Economy Forum

    Plastics: From a Linear Problem to Circular Solutions

    Thursday, December 8, 2022, 7:00 – 9:00 am (DC)

  • Plastics

    From packaging to transport and health, plastics are among the most ubiquitous materials in our economy. The global plastic industry is valued at USD 600 billion and provides employment for millions. But plastic pollution has become a crisis of monumental proportions, with 8 million tons ending up in oceans annually. In coastal West Africa, about 80 percent of plastic waste is mismanaged posing escalating challenges to people, the economy, and the coastal and marine environment.

  • Operational brief: Financing Options and Instruments

    Many African countries would also benefit from accessing the World Bank’s full range of finance instruments, which spans grant financing, debt, and equity financing. Technical assistance or grant financing is often required to undertake the analytics and diagnostics needed to identify policy improvements.

  • Operational Brief: Developing and Incentivizing Institutions

    Thematic coordination involves identifying common development challenges that require coordinated action across agencies at the national and local level. Climate change adaptation, jobs, and livelihoods are important examples of such shared challenges.

  • Operational brief: Jobs and Livelihoods in the Blue Economy

  • Operational brief: Knowledge, Data, and Information

    Improving the organization of—and strengthening access to—data and knowledge among governments, the private sector, academia, civil society organizations, financiers, and the public will help generate multisectoral, spatial, and sustainable development insights and attract more financing, including from the private sector and other development partners.

  • Operational brief: Marine Spatial Planning

    Marine spatial planning can help design coordinated coastal resilience programs at scale and identify possible lowcarbon development and growth pathways. This type of spatial planning can integrate measures articulated in nationally determined contributions and other instruments, budget for those measures, and monitor their progress.

  • Operational Brief: Sustainable Fisheries

    Stronger capacity for sustainable fisheries management could involve working with fish farming communities to adopt climateresilient aquaculture or mariculture, and implementing climate adaptation programs to strengthen the fisheries value chain.

  • Operational Brief: Marine Pollution

    The solutions include promoting a circular economy approach, improving solid waste infrastructure and services, and strong monitoring of plastic pollution for proactive action and removal. For wastewater, the use of practical low-cost technologies, with an emphasis on circular economy approaches, is gaining attention.

  • Operational Brief: Coastal and Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystems

    Governance also plays an important role. Coastal areas and territorial waters are under the jurisdiction of several agencies that lack sufficient coordination and incentives to improve the management of natural resources. Marine spatial planning is an important tool to improve such governance.

  • Operational Brief: Climate Change and the Blue Economy in Africa

    A robust Blue Economy could protect Africa from the worst effects of climate change. At the same time, the effects of climate change are already preventing the continent from achieving the full benefits of a vibrant Blue Economy.

  • Operational Brief Overview Blue Economy for Resilient Africa Program

    The Blue Solutions for Africa series of operational briefs captures how a thriving Blue Economy can help African countries better manage the development challenges they face while supporting economic growth, sustainable livelihoods, and the health of these precious ecosystems.

  • Blue Economy for Resilient Africa Program

    Africa has an opportunity to unleash the potential to develop a resilient blue economy.

  • Regional fisheries project in West Africa: the case of Guinea Bissau

    In 2011, artisanal fishing employed nearly 26,000 people in Guinea Bissau. 

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