{"id":253017,"date":"2025-10-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=253017"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:06:56","slug":"global-gateway-forum-new-value-chains-and-new-jobs-in-the-caribbean-as-the-eu-and-caribbean-tackle-the-sargassum-crisis-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/global-gateway-forum-new-value-chains-and-new-jobs-in-the-caribbean-as-the-eu-and-caribbean-tackle-the-sargassum-crisis-together\/","title":{"rendered":"EU and Caribbean tackle the sargassum crisis together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For over a decade, extensive sargassum seaweed blooms have affected Caribbean coasts, disrupting fisheries, tourism and local communities and causing multi-million damage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the European Union\u2019s (EU) Global Gateway Investment Agenda, the EU, Team Europe and Caribbean partners are working to turn this challenge into cleaner coastlines, new opportunities for employment, and a boost for local business ventures. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT\u2019S APP GROUP<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

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The third EU-Caribbean Global Gateway Conference on Sargassum, which took place today, marks a shift from studies and pilot projects to real action. <\/p>

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Governments, the private sector, academia, and international financiers came together to explore practical solutions for turning sargassum into economic opportunities and supporting its collection and management.<\/p>

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Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jozef S\u00edkela<\/strong>, said: The sargassum crisis has been a persistent challenge for Caribbean communities, harming local livelihoods and causing costly damage to tourism, one of the region\u2019s key economic sectors. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But together, we are proving that this crisis can be turned into an opportunity – a source of jobs, innovation, and even clean energy across the region – by building value chains from sargassum<\/em><\/p>

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At the conference, Grenada, the Dominican Republic and Mexico pledged to collect and process at least 660,000 tonnes of sargassum between 2026 and 2027:<\/p>

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