Investment Pathways for the Green and Blue Economies in Mauritius and Seychelles

This publication showcases how the United Nations, working through the Joint SDG Fund, supported Mauritius and Seychelles in unlocking investment opportunities aligned with their green and blue economy priorities. As Small Island Developing States, both countries face acute challenges in climate, energy, and waste management despite contributing minimally to global emissions.

Through a coordinated, multi-agency approach, the initiative focused on building enabling policy frameworks, strengthening institutional capacity, and developing innovative financing strategies to crowd in private capital while ensuring inclusion, gender responsiveness, and national ownership. 

In Mauritius, the work centred on accelerating the transition to renewable energy, particularly ocean-based solutions such as offshore wind, by aligning policy, data, capacity development, and financing mechanisms. In Seychelles, the focus was on turning waste into economic opportunity through a national circular economy roadmap, financing strategies, and private-sector engagement to reduce landfill pressure, cut pollution, and create green jobs.

Together, these experiences demonstrate how integrated UN support can help SIDS transform structural vulnerabilities into pathways for resilience, sustainable growth, and investable SDG outcomes that can be replicated in other island and coastal contexts.

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All joint programmes of the Joint SDG Fund are led by UN Resident Coordinators and implemented by the agencies, funds, and programmes of the United Nations development system. With sincere appreciation for the contributions from the European Union and Governments of Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland for a transformative movement towards achieving the SDGs by 2030.