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Non-Governmental Organization

https://www.facebook.com/Sail4ethics-111834524032838

Reduce fossil fuel consumption costs by promoting the return to sailing for boats. Diversify economies around the creation of new value chains linked to this sector. Promote associated technical training. Linking sustainable agricultural practices, sustainable tourism activities to an ecological mode of transport by sailing boat. Promote the development of all products resulting from this transport, and cooperative management to allow the transition.

Diversify economies around the creation of new value chains linked to the sector of ships. Linking sustainable agricultural practices, sustainable tourism activities to an ecological mode of transport by sailing boat. Promote the development of all products resulting from this transport.

Reduce fossil fuel consumption costs by promoting the return to sailing for boats. Diversify economies around the creation of new value chains linked to this sector. Promote associated technical training. Linking sustainable agricultural practices, sustainable tourism activities to an ecological mode of transport by sailing boat. Promote the development of all products resulting from this transport, and cooperative management to allow the transition.

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

The challenge is to support Small Medium Size Businesses, helping them to withstand the pandemic. There is a great opportunity in increasing access to quality education, with emphasis on development of an entrepreneurial mindset. This is an important element that is currently missing when offering business related educational courses. It is the mindset that would help these small businesses to be resilient.

Yes

https://www.facebook.com/CollectiveAirMobilityProject/

SpΔce ΔquΔ LΔb whit the Project ___Collective Air Mobility __seeks to change the way we travel by bringing Comfort, speed and safety to Local air travel in the Mediterranean Coastal area and Africa, through a Port Station drone hub in every Coastal City.
Collective Air Mobility's vision for air transport will provide a convenient, cost-effective and favorable regional travel option for both the Local community and the Tourism system
#CollectiveAirMobility #AirMobility #SpaceAquaLab #Mediterranean

We Shape the Future of Architecture and Technology in the Floatings City & Marine _

We are an innovative Company that takes advantage of new technologies, research and development for the prototyping of drones for human transport and objects and the development of a new transport system for urban areas Smart City and Marine Areas .
______ Collection Air Mobility Project _ & _ TEMEA Project Trans Express Mediterranean Europe Africa -
We are Planning the Construction of infrastructure and Air mobility services . An electric drone airline that moves people and for the delivery market, in cities and in extra-urban and marine areas, real mobility solutions, in an economic and sustainable way.

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

The “new blue economy”
that improve the human relationship with the ocean and for aligning our systems of accounting and metrics to both define and enhance our ocean-positive economy.
Challenges
some challenges to the perspective of Blue Economy such as frequent floods, marine pollution including Ocean acidification and blue carbon, lack of trained personnel, harmonizing sectoral policies, plans and laws, poor ocean governance and political support etc.
Opportunity
A blue economy provides SIDS and coastal LDCs with a basis to pursue a low-carbon and resource-efficient path to economic growth and development designed to enhance livelihoods for the poor, create employment opportunities, and reduce poverty.

The blue economy has diverse components, including established traditional ocean indus- tries such as fisheries, tourism, and maritime transport, but also new and emerging activi- ties, such as offshore renewable energy, aquaculture, seabed extractive activities,

the blue economy is the "sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs while preserving the health of ocean ecosystem."

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

Need to take into account local particularities and ecosystems. Development of solutions adapted to the territories and not of standardized solutions at the global level

strengthening of knowledge and sharing of positive solutions

Yes

Annpeters Global Humanitarian Foundation

Non-Governmental Organization

Anpeters Global Humanitarian Foundation

The idea of introduce new system that is inline with COVID.Speed stop of COVID,New innovation,introduction and organisisng seminar for small island developing country and teaching them a new system that will aid their economy and boast their income.COVID hindered a lot which results in poor production which affect income and economy.mass campaign regard COVID and quick solution to end it.

Its possible area is to provide alternative to ocean for them.Place strick restriction to adherence to COVID law,provide alternative means of sustainable ocean based economy that will provide means of survive and feed the nation to avoid hunger and dead.

To introduce new and fast system to put an end to COVID.New innovation,introduction and organisisng seminar/conference for small island developing country and teaching them a new system that will aid their economy and boast their income.COVID hindered a lot which results in poor production which affect income and economy.mass campaign regard COVID and quick solution to end it.

Yes

Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa

The main challenge is that "blue economy" remains an undefined buzzword that is applied to all kinds of projects that are not sustainable or just. It is frequently used to cover up a militarized and extractivist approach to ocean-based economic development that marginalizes coastal communities and further degrades the environment. Even the governments of SIDS and LDCs are guilty of this type of development project. The developing "blue justice" framework provides a viable alternative. If economic development is designed with blue justice as the primary goal, these problems can be overcome.

Coastal communities are the most important partners.

Optimism around ocean-based economic development should be questioned. COVID revealed the failure of our political and economic systems to provide for coastal communities in SIDS and LDCs. It would be naive to assume that the same systems and approaches will provide the solutions to this crisis. Promoting and strengthening ocean-based economies should be about promoting and strengthening ocean-reliant communities. If this is the primary goal, there is no reason why economic development and the political reforms it requires need to perpetuate the harms already taking place. If it is not the primary goal, however, this entire enterprise is likely to further marginalize those who should be at the center.

Yes

Underwater Cultural Heritage holds great relevance and potential for SIDS. SIDS have a strong cultural connection to the sea due to their vast territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zones that cover immense expanses of the world’s oceans . Sunken cities, shipwrecks, venerated sites and underwater cemeteries related from WWII, as well as prehistoric sites, provide huge potential for research, education and development, including tourism activities. They also serve as indicators of climate change that has occurred over the millennia, information that relevant parties can act upon to safeguard and protect these physical sites, as well as the marine environment.

The UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage can assist SIDS in protecting their heritage sites.

It is important that cultural heritage managers are included in all consultation processes and activities.

Yes

https://www.weareforcesofnature.org

Today's youth will bear the worst effects of climate change and the most responsibility for implementing solutions. Our marine ecosystems are the beginning of life, and we need to bring together our best scientists and entrepreneurs to collaborate on solutions that address marine pollution, ocean acidfication, and fishing. We need to regerate our mangrovees to absorb carbon and protect our coastlines from rising seas. We need to work with small island nations on issues of climate gentrification and forced migration from the encroaching seas. These issues, in a post-pandemic world- are taking on increasing importance, as small island nations are being hit by the economic problems associated with both ocean health and COVID-19.

Solutions and adaptations being implemented along the coastlines of wealthy developed areas, such as Miami, Florida, can serve as a model for those small island nations that are least responsible for carbon emmissions but most affected by climate change.

Solutions include the importation of building code expertise that can withdtand climate change-related extreme weather events, and sustainable fishing, as well as the regeneration of mangroves and coral reefs.

Yes

International Ocean Institute

Non-Governmental Organization

Collation and sharing of examples of successful and replicable citizen science and practices that can be used to support the needs of developing countries in addressing in specific areas, vulnerabilities and knowledge gaps connected with marine and coastal ecosystems.

Collation and sharing of examples of successful and replicable citizen science and practices that can be used to support the needs of developing countries in addressing in specific areas, vulnerabilities and knowledge gaps connected with marine and coastal ecosystems.

Yes

Environmental Defense Fund and the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University

Non-Governmental Organization

https://www.edf.org/ and https://oceansolutions.stanford.edu/

Supporting and investing in sustainable and diverse blue food systems is key to strengthening ocean-based economies, especially in developing countries. 800 mill. people earn their livelihoods in blue food systems, half of whom are women, and 90% of whom are small-scale actors. In addition to being a major source of protein for more than 3 bill. people, blue foods are a key source of essential micronutrients which can help address malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies that are a major impediment to development. Stewardship of aquatic food sources for domestic consumption as well as for export is increasingly recognized as an important component of resilience in the wake of COVID and in the face of climate change & other potential shocks.

The Blue/Aquatic Foods Action Coalition brings together UN Member State governments and participants from civil society, the fishing and aquaculture industry, and other sectors and can be built upon to further multiple goals.

* Use diverse blue foods to reduce malnutrition, and rebuild, where appropriate, traditional healthy diets that are focused on locally sourced aquatic foods, including them in school meals and other publicly-supported feeding programs.

* Invest in the development of hard and soft infrastructure that enables small-scale actors to access markets.

* Protect and improve the health of aquatic ecosystems to support the production of safe blue foods.

* Invest in the capabilities of small-scale actors, particularly through measures that expand the inclusion of women and strengthen human rights.

* Support the collection and curation of data on blue food production and consumption, nutrient deficiencies and food loss and waste.

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

For small island developing states and least developed countries in the Asia-Pacific region, a major trend in promoting and strengthening sustainable marine-based economies is the state of affairs in which industries such as fisheries and agriculture have been severely damaged by extreme weather events and reduced biodiversity, even before COVID-19. However, the spread of the new coronavirus has severely damaged the tourism industry, which had been the main industry of the island countries in the Asia-Pacific region. As a result, one of the main challenges is the outflow of population from the island areas, which is accelerating the decline of the population.

Considering the latest COVID-related data, a possible new partnership with regard to promoting and strengthening sustainable marine-based economies in small island developing states and least developed countries in the Asia-Pacific region could be the Developer of Port Development.

Yes

CEGAMCentro de Especialistas en Gestión Ambiental (CEGAM)

Science & Technological Community

Four dimensions can be considered for attention: Technology and infrastructure, especially health capabilities will be required to compete and assure visitors high standard’s needs. Healthy landscapes seen as a guarantee, to fulfill demand for sustainable, clean and healthy environments. Sustainable food production goes beyond self-sufficiency, land and seascapes are interconnected, so local food supply, coming from agriculture, cattle, or fisheries are shared by tourist and local population, but also are linked to exports, low carbon footprint will be the path. New institutional arranges will be needed to have long term planning and policy coherence to tackle the new and more complex crisis to come.

Local business has to evolve and decide and explore new paths. NGOs, Universities, chambers of commerce, government officials and international agencies (all) will have to make a dialogue on policies and explore new institutional arrays and dialogues.

Ecosystem’s restauration and conservation along with sustainable production, low carbon and high quality production standards will be not only the “seat belt” for future crises (including climate change impacts) but the insurance policy for local wellbeing and resilience. The best business now is to rely in high quality services and products, but above all, healthy environments. As society we need successful stories, “positive deviance” and Multisolving approaches, transcend sectorial and silos will be our biggest challenges.

Yes

As a developing country, Republic of Indonesia, that’s usually called Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Melanesia between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Indonesia has more than 17,000 islands, including Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Bali, etc. There is small island in Indonesia call Obi Island. The island has resources of gold, coal, nickel, cement, and petroleum. In 2016, provincial governor Abdul Ghani Kasuba successfully negotiated for the China-based Jinchun Group to build a 620 million dollar nickel smelter on the main island.

Obi Island besides having potential resources nature in the agricultural sector, there is also a Mining is pretty good. Existing potential are gold, coal, nickel, cement, petroleum etc. One of the water sources on the island Obi is Karo lake and existing condition around Karo lake.

Obi Island has the potential of natural resources in the agricultural sector which is quite abundant. The dominant plantation products are cloves, nutmeg, coconut and pepper. One ton of cloves can generate 70 million rupiah, which has been deducted from harvest costs for clove farmers on Obi Island. Obi Island has natural attractions that have the potential to be developed. However, due to the inequality of tourism development in Obi, it is not publicized or managed properly. The forms of tourist attractions on Obi Island are quite varied, such as fishing, snorkeling, diving and other water activities. This is because the wealth of the Obi sea is very rich and is still quite well preserved.

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

Sea-level rise has many incidences, including coastal erosion, flooding and marine submersion over large areas, land salinization and coastal ecosystems' destruction. These phenomena have increasingly significant socio-economic impacts, related to the growing demographic and economic pressures on the coastline — by 2025, more than 70% of the world’s urban population will be living on the coast (UN-Habitat, 2011). The development and implementation of adaptation policies are still confronted with numerous scientific, psycho-social, political and financial obstacles. In a context that calls for urgent adaptation of coastal cities and territories, opportunities exist to redesign cities more fairly, democratic and mindful of their environment.

The consultation of coastal and hinterland stakeholders is a necessary condition to achieving adaptation measures that are effective, fair and sustainable. While raising awareness and developing a collective risk culture is essential, it is critical to encourage cooperation to co-design solutions.

(1) Achieving adaptation in partnership with regional actors: The co-design of adaptation policies can be envisioned within networks of experience-sharing among coastal cities and regions, leveraging collective intelligence.
(2) Re-designing coastal areas within a coherent regional whole: The spatial scale of adaptation extends to natural areas, and integrating them provides numerous benefits (e.g., coastal resilience, regional attractiveness, biodiversity).
(3) Implementing dynamic and hybrid adaptation strategies: Given the uncertainty surrounding climate and risk trajectories, adaptation policies must be dynamic and hybrid. Scientific observations and modeling can both facilitate predictions and steer the changes that need to be made

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

In SIDS and LDCs climate mitigation and adaptation, food security, education & health for a growing population are crucial. Historical reconstructions (last few hundred years or since WWII) for Pacific and Caribbean island states show a dramatic loss of megafauna and species abundance under the onslaught of European colonialists and since by industrial fishing vessels. Moreover, some of these are likely to disappear in a warming ocean with rising sea level. In LDCs e.g. in WAfrica, the huge expansion of mostly Asian investments into fishmeal factories and industrial catches of small pelagic fish reduced to animal feeds rather than caught by SSF for feeding low-income people takes on threatening proportions. Food instead of feeds.

Before all else, marine ecosystem rebuilding should be promoted and implemented by inclusive multi-stakeholder partnerships so that the notion of sustainability ocean-based economies is not a smoke screen for neocolonial types of investment without regard for the local people’s way of living.

Fair fishing agreements only covering ships publicly registered with indication of beneficial ownership particularly for Pacific SIDS the EEZs of which are hugely more bigger than their land mass. For LDCs in West Africa, disinvest from fishmeal factories and foreign or fake local industrial fishing vessels that are involved in IUU fishing and human rights abuses and seriously threaten local food security. FAO should not accept TCP projects for countries choosing animal feed over food. Destroying the livelihoods of men and women in SSF to replace local development with poorly adapted and indebting foreign investment must not be justified by a so-called ‘sustainable blue economy’. Transparency and accountability.

Yes

Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Non-Governmental Organization

Challenge: ​​Accurately valuing and inclusion of valuing marine mammal and large marine vertebrate ecosystem functions within nation states net productivity.

Development of new innovative funding mechanisms that incentivise long-term conservation efforts.

Redirecting and enhancing existing climate mitigation funding to enhance biodiversity recovery.

Developing partnerships with health and social benefit bodies.

Creating adaptive co-management and conflict resolution for rewilding/nature based enhancement across development contexts to enhance future governance success

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

Trends:Carbon emissions from tourism (which are estimated roughly at 8% of total carbon emissions), mainly due to air transport, are growing year after year. Digitalization and the integration of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in the blue economy sectors are two of the major trends for the future of the tourism industry. Challenges: High carbon footprint of the tourism sector. Resistance to change to degrowth models in the tourism industry. Opportunities: Leveraging slow and small-scale tourism, which encompasses activities like surfing or wildlife observation, is relevant because visitors support local development and economies while they contribute to the ecosystem's protection by engaging in conservation actions.

Partnerships can be found by exploring further the role of Blue Carbon Funds as tools to enhance Parties’ Nationally Determined Contributions and by studying the role of behavioral change and tourism education for achieving a higher ecological protection.

Boosting conservation activities as part of the tourist offer in coastal destinations/Accelerating the digitization of tourism and using storytelling tools, as they allow for personalized, valuable experiences that can shun mass tourism and favor the protection of the environment/Enforce regulatory mechanisms to ban ships and boats that damage the seafloor and marine life and endemic species/Implementing circular waste management systems/Promoting purposeful and value oriented activities driven by long term policies focused on nature’s protection/Financing the retrofitting of existing facilities to implement net-zero emissions and energy efficiency systems, requiring switching to self-produced renewable energy (prosumers)

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

www.bringbackgreen.com

Addressing the full life cycle of materials from design, production to waste prevention and management
Regional development plans, supporting access to affordable green financing and sustainable markets with more focus on micro, small and medium sized enterprises.
Innovative pathways to achieve sustainable consumption and production.
Establishing an effective infrastructure for waste management and recycling, incentivizing extended product life cycles and intelligent product design

Technologies to improve natural resource management, business models and best practices that embrace circular economy

Strengthening partnerships between governments, private sector, NGOs, the scientific community and other stakeholders.
Sustainable consumption and production; sustainable public procurement
Energy efficiency and management

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

Trends: The lack of consistent, accessible data, insufficient data sharing, limited coordination, and insufficient resources, is increasing the risks to critical infrastructure needed for sustainable ocean-based economies particularly in small island and least developed countries (SIDS-LDC).

Challenges: It’s not always clear what data, information and tools are available; how to tap into these tools; or how to find process and interpret the data in a timely manner. These are the unique challenges for SIDS-LDC.

Opportunities: Enhance cooperation through coordinated approach / mechanism to support SIDS-LDC’s in addressing their constraints in access to technology, in particular challenges in collecting, analyzing, and using reliable data.

The cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary consortia partnership that we would like to propose is in combining developments from both developed and SIDS-LDC’s by bringing together the users of ocean economy and technology providers, funding communities and policymakers, with collective stake in SDG14.

CANEUS proposes:

1. To incentivize series of Limited Objective Demonstration Projects (LOD’s) across SIDS-LDC regions for sharing of good practices, giving visibility to well-performing partnerships, to promote and strengthen sustainable ocean-based economies.

2. To help devise a dedicated funding facility for SIDS-LDC’s, e.g. Global Ocean Fund for Development (GOF4D), as an operational vehicle, by way of a “force multiplier” of mechanism such as “blue bonds” and utilizing and leveraging existing mechanisms.

3. Too create new collaborative framework for sharing of marine technology and communication data standards to monitor Oceans, Seas and Marine Resources” specifically for SIDS-LDC’s sustainable development.

Yes

Non-Governmental Organization

Transitioning from the use of polluting fossil energies to renewable energy is essential for reducing toxic emissions, as set by the Paris Agreement (COP21). An ocean of powerful resources have enormous potential as a source of renewable energy. The ocean offers substantial sustainable resources for renewable energy production, among which: offshore wind, tidal currents, waves, temperature and salinity gradients, deep cold sea water

Partnership with private sector and investment organisations.

1. Ocean energy, can provide a real alternative of clean, indigenous and secure power.

Yes

The Danish Institute for Human Rights

National Human Rights Institution

https://www.humanrights.dk/promoting-human-rights-fisheries-aquaculture

The Covid-19 crisis has had a disproportionate impact on fishing-dependent communities in the small-scale sector around the world. The development of ocean-based economies will not be truly sustainable without consideration of the social impacts and the human rights dimension, as called for in the Human Rights-Based Approach to Development, as well as in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Ocean-based industries have limited knowledge on their social and human rights impacts. It is therefore important that relevant government actors and companies are made more aware on potential social impacts and how to address these, e.g. through partnerships with human rights experts or NHRIs.

Strategies for strengthening ocean-based economies must be aligned with human rights standards and take adequate considerations towards population groups dependent on coastal ecosystems and marine resources. This entails following a human rights-based approach to policy and programme development - and aligning business activities and the States' regulation of the private sector with the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights.

Yes

Green Cross France et Territoires

Non-Governmental Organization

Covid-19 and environmental emergencies is putting islands at higher risks. Their vulnerabilities rank higher in every sector (sea-level rise, freshwater, agriculture and food, energies and waste...) and cross-sectors cumulative effects - specifically the ones due to the evolutions of tourism, and the more extreme weather events) need a new hollistic and territorial path from vulnerabilities to resilience.

Extreme water events preparedness
Food security, innovation and agricultural systems and transformation
Sustainable tourism schemes
Low-carbon transportation of humans and goods

Develop a knowledge-share hub for small islands allowing common description of innovative projects outcomes and return on experience (we are developing a concept model and first cases implimentation)
Address locally-design and implemented innovation connected in global innovation hubs with the support of pivotal economies (Europe, Monaco, South Pacific...)

Yes

Intergovernmental Organisation

Challenges: Interrupted supply chains; lack of access to digital technologies & innovative tools; lack of political awareness of the value of ocean resources and inadequate & financing for integrated planning; inadequate policy & institutional frameworks for integrated ocean governance. Trends: Recognition of the opportunities of development of ocean economies to contribute to economic growth. Opportunities: Development of regional & national ocean governance frameworks; sustainable & inclusive approaches to ocean governance

Research to baseline the value of ocean economies for Africa; development of practical & impactful ocean governance frameworks; public-private partnerships for sustainable & inclusive ocean economies; strengthened regional blue economy value chains; Digital tools & technologies for ocean governance

Development of sustainable & inclusive blue economy governance frameworks & targeted actions based on multi-stakeholder engagements; public-private partnerships; innovative solutions for financing & investment into regional blue economy value chain strengthening; Digital tools & technologies for ocean governance; ensuring ocean issues & opportunities are mainstreamed into NDPs, climate response measures & economic development dialogues

Yes

BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

Latin America and the Caribbean

Non-Governmental Organization

https://www.slideshare.net/GeorgeRADJOU//www.slideshare.net/GeorgeRADJOU

Covid 19 is not affecting the quality of seas and the continental shelves. Sustainable ocean based economies are about the viability of the economy to the islanders. For example, we have seen that the local fisheries and fisherman have difficulties to compete with the largest multinational and fleet of foreign vessels, because of the lack of technology surveillance and the control of the continental shelves are belonging exclusively to a national countries. The health of the communities can be restricted with the business restriction, following the governmental objectives. The equity can be affected as no communities may have the same share of the environmental resources and the protections can create barriers to some segments of islanders.

SDG14 is 50% the waste removal-Islanders can just clean the beaches for the tourists and create more peaceful and secure environment for the economic activities: tourism, leisure. The viability is an increasing perception of the role of payment and tourism adventures in the biodiversity.

The role of the supply chain from the suppliers, human resources, processes, sales and consumers. The ocean based economy is mainly about the tourism industries, fisheries and energy production. it can be hazardous in view of the previous oil crisis (oil spill...), risk of tsunamis, early warning system are perfectible as the architecture for flood risk reduction, learning from the narrative stories, and the animals and plants with the local sciences. There are opportunities to build new education system and social life. Use of internet to diversify and connect the economies with the main lands. Some islander are still isolated and there is an obvious needs for boats, food supplies and the trade. Families are far away from the city centers.

Yes

Ocean Policy Research Institue, Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Science & Technological Community

https://www.spf.org/en/opri/

Sustainable ocean economies have been identified by many countries as a key policy priority. However, there are some gaps between countries and localities as to the social capacity and cross-sectoral and social partnership to achieve blue economies. There have been gaps between countries as to the social capacity, technology, science, human resources, and finance. It is also hard to promote cross-sectoral, inter-agency, and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Some island countries continue to face limitations in receiving benefits from ocean economies under the economic stagnation due to the pandemic.

The High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy provided a useful platform for political leaders and stakeholders to interact and develop policy directions and partnership with the expert group, and the advisory network. National and regional networks have also emerged.

It is vital to promote policy and institutional transformation and cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder partnership at the national, regional, and international levels towards achieving blue economies. Multiple marine and coastal ecosystem services must be properly assessed and sustained as an important foundation for blue economies. Good practices and information sharing need to be promoted on various issues including sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, blue carbon, blue tourism, decarbonization in the fishery and maritime sectors, and blue finance. Marine spatial planning, sustainable ocean plans, and stakeholder dialogues and partnerships need to be promoted at the transboundary, sub-regional, regional and international partnerships.

Yes

Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council

Capacity for enforcement and monitoring of fisheries in these areas are much needed. Many small island developing states and territories need continued fishery development and market infrastructure, given their remote setting. This can make these fisheries more efficient and ensure food security.

Coordination between regional fishery management organizations (RFMOs) and other international bodies is needed in this regard. The competency of these organizations need to not be undermined and they need to be included in any relevant international policy discussions related to implementing SDG 14. Some of these RFMOs have Conventions that prioritize reducing disproportionate burdens for small island developing states and territories.

Small island developing states and territories need increased scientific and technical support to reduce bycatch and increase sustainable yields of target species. These communities also need to be integrated through a ‘bottom-up’ approach of management allowing them to drive policies. While biodiversity and conservation goals are important for SDG 14, improving economic performance and efficiency of fisheries in these areas should be weighted equally.