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SUSTAINABLE FINANCING OF MPAs IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: A FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

effective management of 34,141 km² of MPAs (compared with 45,999 km² of existing
MPAs – excluding the Pelagos sanctuary).
The tables and figures below present changes in financing over the period 2015-2020.
This funding effort to reach the Aichi target is substantial when compared with current
resources directed to MPAs. This funding effort corresponds mainly to the creation of new
MPAs that would definitely lead to major benefits for tourism, fisheries and other coastal
activities in the medium term. This value seems quite small when it is considered that MPAs
are a major contributor to international tourism activities in the Mediterranean. This value
only represents 3.6% of the annual revenue of international tourism in the
Mediterranean estimated to be €190bn in 2011.

GAP FOR IDEAL MANAGEMENT OF MPAs IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
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Using an average funding gap per km , it is possible to extrapolate the results of this study to countries that
did not provide financial data and to estimate a funding gap for the Mediterranean basin as a whole. This
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raises the funding gap to €7.671bn which is €669M more for an additional 12,678 km to be protected by
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2020. Overall, achieving Aichi Target 11 by protecting 64,751 km by 2020 could lead to a funding
gap of €7.67bn if the general trends regarding MPAs funding stay the same. This last crude
extrapolation only aims to provide an order of magnitude of the gap for the whole basin and should be used
with precaution as an illustration.

May 2015 – Vertigo Lab, for MedPAN, RAC/SPA and WWF Med. Page 84