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Sustainable Development Goal 14
Sustainable Development Goal 14 aims to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources. It focuses on addressing issues such as marine pollution, overfishing, and ocean acidification, while also promoting sustainable management of coastal and marine ecosystems. This goal seeks to ensure the long-term health and productivity of the ocean environment, crucial for both human well-being and the planet's biodiversity.
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10 Key excerpts on "Sustainable Development Goal 14"
- Brian P. McCullough, Timothy Kellison, E. Nicole Melton, Brian P. McCullough, Timothy Kellison, E. Nicole Melton(Authors)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
Sustainable Development Goal 14: life below water
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41 An overview of Sustainable Development Goal 14
Leon Mach and Jess PontingDOI: 10.4324/9781003023968-41Sustainable Development Goal 14 calls for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development (General Assembly, 2015 ) (Table 41.1).41.1 Targets
See Table 41.1Table 41.1Targets of Sustainable Development Goal 1414.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution 14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans14.3 Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels 14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics14.5 By 2020, conserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information 
eBook - ePubSustainable Blue Revolution in India
Way Forward
- Latha Shenoy, Shridhar Rajpathak(Authors)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development Goal 15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss Goal 16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels Goal 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable DevelopmentGoal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Main aim under goal 14 is to prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution by 2025. It is decided mutually to sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans by 2020. It is important to minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels & task set to effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics by 2020.Source: Sustainable Development Report, 2019Conserving at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information is one of the focus to be accomplished by 2020. Prohibiting certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation.
- Jonas Ebbesson, Ellen Hey(Authors)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Cambridge University Press(Publisher)
14 SDG 14: Conserve and Sustainably Use the Oceans, Seas and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development Karen N. Scott abstract This chapter explores the complex and challenging relationship between Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, Life below Water, and the relevant international legal frameworks. It shows that the effective implementation of SDG 14 may be compromised by the structural limitations of international law in general as well as by the idiosyncrasies of the law of the sea. Yet the SDG 14 targets may serve to strengthen existing regimes, operate as interstitial norms connecting distinct regimes, or identify gaps in ocean governance and inspire new regulation. However, where the SDG 14 target is expressed in weaker or more general terms than existing obligations or goals, SDG 14 may undermine existing instruments. In the absence of an overarching ‘Ocean Council’, the regime complex that is in place provides as many opportunities for duplication of, or contradictory, efforts as it does for the development of mutually supportive measures. It is also posited that SDG 14 fails to provide the necessary conceptual framework for the law of the sea in the Anthropocene. keywords SDG 14, law of the sea, ocean governance, regime complex, marine resources 14.1 introduction Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, Life below Water, seeks to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development. The ocean covers 70 per cent of the earth’s surface and is fundamental to all life on 354 the earth. It generates half of the oxygen we breathe 1 and currently absorbs around 26 per cent of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide. 2 The oceans are integral to processes of nutrient recycling and filtration, and coastal ecosystems play a key role in flood defences. In total, 40 per cent of the global population lives within two hundred kilometres of the oceans, and twelve of the world’s fifteen mega cities are situated on the coast.
eBook - ePubFulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals
On a Quest for a Sustainable World
- Narinder Kakar, Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas A. Robinson, Narinder Kakar, Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas A. Robinson(Authors)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
21 Achieving SDG 14Time for a Global Ocean Approach
Kristina M. Gjerde and Marjo VierrosDOI: 10.4324/9781003144274-21Introduction
The adoption of Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14) (Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources) as a standalone goal for the ocean represented a historic achievement that elevated the prominence of ocean issues on the international level and set the stage for governments to consider ocean governance as a part of their sustainable development plans and policies. Largely neglected in the context of the Millennium Development Goals, the SDGs demonstrate a growing understanding of the role of the ocean in supporting human lives and livelihoods, and in the achievement of other SDGs including those relating to hunger, health, innovation, and climate change. Rather than being seen as purely an environmental issue to be dealt with in isolation, the ocean has become central to realizing all other SDGs.SDG 14’s 10 targets cover a broad range of ocean pressures and drivers. The fact that many of these expired in 2020 underscores the urgency for action. In summary, the SDG 14 targets are 14.1 prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution (2025), 14.2 sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems (2020), 14.3 minimize ocean acidification (2030), 14.4 improve marine fisheries management and end illegal fishing (2020), 14.5 conserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas (2020), 14.6 prohibit harmful fisheries subsidies (2020), and 14.7 increase economic benefits to Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries (2030).1 Cross-cutting targets for 2030 are 14.A increase scientific knowledge, research capacity, and technology; 14.B enhance access for small-scale artisanal fisheries; and 14.C implement international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to improve ocean conservation and sustainable use.21 United Nations G.A. Res. A/RES/70/1, Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
No longer available |Learn more- Guo Huadong(Author)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- EDP Sciences(Publisher)
The future mobilization and promotion of transformative action at all levels and the adoption of effective and integrated solutions to unlock the enormous potential of the ocean sector to drive sustainable development are critical to the full achievement of the SDGs. The implementation of the ocean sustainable development goals and their monitoring and assessment is a cross-cutting and integrated systemic project that requires interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary scientific and technological changes to meet the knowledge enhancement and capacity building required for ocean sustainable development. According to the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 issued by the United Nations, the pace or scale of progress on ocean sustainability-related goals at global and regional scales is far from meeting the requirements of the SDGs. The assessment processes for sustainable development progress in the European Union, Latin America, Arab region, Africa and Asia-Pacific region have established specific assessment indicators for SDG 14, taking into account the specific conditions and priorities of their respective regions. Most of the SDG 14 assessment indicators are mainly environmental indicators, and there is a large gap of insufficient data statistics, which makes it difficult to comprehensively demonstrate the overall progress of SDG 14. In recent years, research institutions, universities and government departments in China have made great efforts to explore and serve the achievement of SDG 14 using Big Earth Data and its 245 Chapter 6 SDG 14 Life Below Water related technical methods. Researchers have accumulated good practical experience in producing datasets and building assessment models (Wang et al., 2021). This chapter focuses on Tier II indicators under two SDG targets, preventing and significantly reducing marine pollution (SDG 14.1), building resilience against disasters, and protecting marine and coastal ecosystems (SDG 14.2).
eBook - PDF- Salvatore Aricò(Author)
- 2015(Publication Date)
- Cambridge University Press(Publisher)
In relation to areas beyond national jurisdiction, the Rio+20 Conference called for a decision at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in 2014 on the development of an international instrument under UNCLOS for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. 12.4 The need for education It is stipulated in Agenda 21, Chapter 36.3 that ‘[e]ducation is critical for promot- ing sustainable development and improving capacity of the people to address environment and development issues’ (United Nations, 1992). The continued validity of this stipulation is evident from the chapters in this book and is further elucidated in this section. 12.4.1 The coastal area and the EEZs The coastal zone space is one of the richest zones on Earth. It has been examined as a possible ‘prelude to conflict’ (Goldberg, 1994). Following the endorsement of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in 1992, of integrated coastal zone management as the paradigm for addressing concerns related to coastal areas, the analysis of these concerns calls for an interdisciplinary and system-oriented approach. These concerns include the rising population in coastal areas, which is still ongoing, the tourism and recreation industries, still increasing and a major source of income in many developing and poor areas, as well as a source of conflict with other uses such as transportation, shipping, aquaculture, fishing, energy production, and mining, and the role of the oceans in waste management. In many regions, pressure on coastal areas has led to large-scale land reclam- ation with displacement of communities, loss of natural habitat, and serious impacts on biodiversity.
eBook - PDFSustainable Development
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
- Paul Sillitoe(Author)
- 2014(Publication Date)
- Berghahn Books(Publisher)
Chapter 11 Promoting Sustainable Development in Marine Regions James Howard Coastal nations are often, economically, highly dependent on the rich di-versity of marine life found in their waters. Their economic development is reliant on continued or expanding income from such marine resources. Such important economic assets need safeguarding from the threats of overexploitation. To a large extent, most countries seek to protect their national waters for their own use; however, these are complex systems and simple protection for economic gain does not equate to sustainable re-source use. The concern with marine ecosystems is their ‘invisible’ nature; it was popularly believed until recently that they are inexhaustible and the threat of extinction a minor one (Roberts and Hawkins 1999). If future generations are to benefit from these assets, we need changes in how these resources are managed, protected and harvested. Many ‘developed’ coun-tries’ marine resources until recently have suffered from ignoring sustain-able practices resulting in irrecoverable loss of diversity and ecosystem function. Developing countries can avoid a similar deterioration of their marine resources by implementing sustainable forms of management in conjunction with other development goals. One of the main arguments for marine conservation is to protect the functioning of ecosystem services. These tend to be taken for granted un-til they are suddenly absent or change. Losses to biodiversity ultimately affect ecosystem services provision (Dietz and Adger 2003). The ocean provides many services from influencing landmass temperatures to pro-tection from storms and natural disasters, to cycling material globally, and detoxifying and sequestering wastes, and providing societal and scientific values.
eBook - PDF- Yeqiao Wang(Author)
- 2009(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
395 20 Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development: A Case Study in Coastal East Africa Yeqiao Wang, James Tobey, Amani Ngusaru, Vedast Makota, Gregory Bonynge, and Jarunee Nugranad CONTENTS 20.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 395 20.2 Methods ........................................................................................................ 399 20.2.1 Study Areas and Data Sources ......................................................... 399 20.2.2 Field Verification .............................................................................. 399 20.2.3 Image Interpretation ......................................................................... 401 20.3 Results ........................................................................................................... 402 20.4 Conclusion and Discussion ........................................................................... 407 Acknowledgments .................................................................................................. 409 References .............................................................................................................. 410 20.1 INTRODUCTION Sustainable development, as defined in “Our Common Future: The Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development [1],” is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future genera-tions to meet their own needs.” In 1999, the U.S. National Research Council added a specific environmental dimension defining sustainable development as “the recon-ciliation of society’s developmental goals with its environmental limits over the long term [2].” Therefore sustainable development is a long-term goal whose implementa-tion is reflected in a variety of action programs, of which Agenda 21—the Rio
eBook - PDF- Stephen Scoffham(Author)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
While time will tell the effectiveness of the Sustainable Development Goals, the proactive language sets out a clear agenda for the role of education and institutions in actively promoting sustainable development. Sustainable development is commonly thought of as having three mutually support- ing dimensions – economic, social and environmental. These work together and link to the idea of quality of life for all, recognising that we live in an interconnected world. They also relate to some of the ‘big’ questions that geography seeks to answer, namely: n Where is this place? What is it like and why? n Why and how is it changing? What will it be like in the future? What kinds of futures do we want? n What do people do here? How are their actions influenced by, and how do they impact on, environments at different scales? n How is this place connected to other places? How am I connected to other people and places? n Who gets what, where, when and how? Who decides? n What’s it got to do with me? Why should I care? Sustainability education is relevant across the entire curriculum and is best approached through holistic teaching and learning. It has a particular association with geography and requires careful underpinning with geographical thinking and knowledge. Issues concern- ing sustainability and the environment have a values-led and affective base, often articulated as a need to ‘care for the world’, which can sometimes eclipse other necessary components of knowledge and critical thinking. While values and emotions are intrinsic and inescapable facets of sustainability, being properly equipped to respond to these issues also demands some degree of cognitive understanding about how and why human, biological and physical worlds interact with and affect each other.
No longer available |Learn moreWorld Economic and Social Survey 2014/2015
Learning from National Policies Supporting MDG Implementation
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs(Author)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- United Nations Publications(Publisher)
Chapter V Environmental sustainability Summary • Progress has been made in some environmental areas since 1990: Ozone-depleting substances have been virtually eliminated, and the ozone layer is expected to recover by the middle of this century; terrestrial and marine protected areas in many regions have increased substantially; 147 countries have met the drinking water target, 95 countries have met the sanitation target and 77 countries have met both; and the proportion of urban population living in slums in developing regions fell notably. • The international community must ensure that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process gives way to necessary cooperation between developed countries and the large, fast-growing developing countries in order to meet carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emission-reduction targets. • Efforts to protect forests will have to be combined with sustainable production and consumption patterns. It must be acknowledged that deforestation is caused by factors beyond the forest sector’s control, necessitating integral approaches. The special role of forests in the life and livelihood of people living in poverty and indigenous peoples should be given adequate attention. • Protection of certain terrestrial and marine areas can be simultaneously helpful for protection of forests, wetlands, biodiversity, water resources, fish stock, and so forth. This in turn is critical to avoiding economic hardships, social tension and conflicts. Addressing the issue of climate change should help in the protection of terrestrial and marine areas. • Adequate drinking water and sanitation infrastructure can best be built through public initiatives, both at national and local levels, complemented by various community and non-governmental initiatives. Infrastructure should be environmentally friendly to avoid negative externalities that have emerged as access to drinking water and sanitation is expanded.
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