Sammanfattning
The ocean is a major contributor to food security and nutrition, livelihoods, critical planetary processes and economies and a healthy ocean is crucial for human survival. The ocean makes up 70% of the Earth’s surface, producing over 50% of the world’s oxygen needed to support animal and human life. There is an increased reliance on the ocean for food, materials and energy to meet current and future needs of human development, at the same time, the ocean is under increasing threat. Effects from climate change such as rising sea temperatures and sea levels, shifts in ocean currents and acidification, and
other effects such as pollution, over-exploitation of natural resources and habitat degradation are decreasing the overall resource availability.
Working towards a sustainable ocean economy contributes to the 2030 Agenda, and the achievement of all its goals, not only SDG 14. A sustainable ocean economy needs to integrate all dimensions of sustainability; economic, social and environmental. If managed sustainably, the ocean has the capacity to regenerate, be sustainably productive, resilient, and support equal societies.
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Tematik: Ekonomisk utvecklingMiljö och klimat
Geografiskt område: Global
Språk: Engelska