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Report: Nigeria, others may lose $300 billion, 49m jobs to climate change crisis

by Arinze Chijioke October 3, 2025
written by Arinze Chijioke October 3, 2025
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African governments have been tasked on the need to to strengthen their legal frameworks, enhance maritime security, and enforce international treaties, as the continent’s blue economy, valued at $300 billion annually, faces multiple threats.

Also, the costs of climate-related issues are projected to cost 12 major African coastal cities between $65 billion and $86.5 billion by 2050. According to stakeholders at the 2025 Lagos International Maritime (LIM) Week’s 10th International Maritime Business-to-Business (IMB2B) Conference and Exhibition, the threat could displace millions in coastal communities and jeopardise 49 million jobs across fisheries, tourism, renewable energy and shipping sectors on the continent.

The event, held in Lagos yesterday, with the theme, ‘Our Oceans, Our Seas, Our Obligations – Maximising Africa’s Ocean Resources’, was organised by ZOE Maritime Resources Limited.

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It drew policymakers, maritime executives and international partners from France, Denmark, the United States, Ghana and Liberia to discuss the rising global interest in Africa’s blue economy and its role in shaping the continent’s sustainable future.

Delivering a public lecture on the theme of the event, the Executive Chairman/Chief Consultant, Widescope International Group/Global Transport Policy (GTP), Dr Oluwasegun Musa, said Africa’s oceans, stretching over 47,000 kilometers of coastline and covering 13 million square kilometers of exclusive economic zones (EEZs), faces threats of climate change, overfishing, pollution and weak governance.

Musa pointed out that weak governance and financing gaps further hinder progress, noting that despite high-level frameworks like the African Blue Economy Strategy, over two-thirds of the continent’s nations lack comprehensive national strategies, while an estimated $70 billion in yearly investment is needed to achieve sustainable development goals through 2030.

Represented by the Director of Strategy and Business Development, GTP, Mark Onuchi, Musa said illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing continues to drain billions of dollars yearly from African economies, which is depleting fish stocks and destabilising coastal communities, with West Africa’s catch potential expected to decline by 30 per cent.

He said fisheries and aquaculture hold enormous potential to close a projected 12-million-tonne fish deficit by 2050 and that with strategic investments and regulation, Africa could become a net exporter of fish and meet the rising protein demands.

Story was adapted from The Guardian.

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