CONSERVE AND SUSTAINABLY USE THE OCEANS, SEAS AND MARINE RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
This goal is about protecting our coasts and oceans.
Why does SDG14 matter to Timor-Leste?
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14.1 by 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, particularly from LAND-BASED ACTIVITIES, including marine debris and nutrient pollution |
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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, to achieve healthy and productive oceans |
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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 (IUU) fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, 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 |
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14.5 by 2020, CONSERVE AT LEAST 10 PER CENT OF COASTAL AND MARINE AREAS, consistent with national and international law and based on best available scientific information |
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14.6 by 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, and eliminate subsidies that contribute to IUU 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 WTO fisheries subsidies negotiation |
| 14.7 by 2030 increase the economic benefits to SIDS and LDCs from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism |
| 14.a 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 |
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14.b provide access of SMALL- SCALE ARTISANAL FISHERS to marine resources and markets |
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14.c 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” |
Almost 80 per cent of the pollution in the oceans comes from land-based activities, both in coastal areas and further inland.
Many of the world’s largest cities are located on the coast and many coastal cities discharge sewage, industrial effluent and other wastewater directly into their surrounding seas.
However, protecting our oceans and coasts is not just the responsibility of coastal cities. Any urban activity within river basins can affect the oceans, such as the discharge of sewage or industrial wastes into rivers.
Worldwide, two-thirds of the sewage from urban areas is discharged untreated into lakes, rivers and coastal waters. Urban sanitation and solid waste management are essential to reducing coastal zone pollution, as is collaboration between municipalities and at regional level.
Coastal cities must develop and implement planning and building regulations to prevent construction in unsuitable areas of the coast.
OTHER RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL AGENDAS:
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
- Financing for Development
- Beijing +20
- Climate Change
