- Borrowing
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
Oceans face significant challenges from eutrophication, worsening acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread pollution. All these factors destroy habitats, diminish biodiversity and threaten coastal communities and the health of marine ecosystems, vital to over 3 billion people.
Efforts to address these mounting concerns remain uneven. Key actions include implementing sustainable fishing practices, expanding marine protected areas to safeguard key biodiversity areas, increasing capacities to monitor ocean health and addressing the pollution that is choking waterways.
Comprehensive global action is under way, yet it must accelerate. Priorities include ensuring that the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies enters into force as soon as possible; increasing participation in the Agreement on Port State Measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing; adopting a global plastic pollution instrument; and ensuring that the Agreement on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction enters into force as soon as possible to ensure the long-term health and sustainability of oceans.
| Target | Description |
|---|---|
| 14.1 |
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 oceans. |
| 14.3 |
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels. |
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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 characteristics. |
| 14.5 |
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information. |
| 14.6 |
By 2020, prohibit 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. |
| 14.7 |
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to small island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism. |
| 14.8 |
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries. |
| 14.9 |
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets. |
| 14.a |
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of “The future we want”. |
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Here are some suggestions from The Global Goals for things you can do to engage with this goal.
Never buy bottled water.
Boil, filter, chlorine, rainwater, do whatever you can to treat the water yourself.
Reduce waste.
Much of the waste that we produce on land ends up in the oceans.
Stop using plastic bags.
Usage and wrong disposal of plastic is a major cause of marine pollution.
Run a campaign on the effects of plastic use on the seas and oceans.
Organize a cleanup project for rivers and oceans.
Engage your whole community to clean up a local river, seaside, or ocean.
Buy local and certified fish.
You can support small-scale producers by shopping in local markets and shops.
