Targets
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
Dow
Dow has collaborated with the Ocean Conservancy for more than 30 years to remove debris and pollutants from oceans and waterways. In 2012, Dow and the Ocean Conservancy joined hands to form the Trash Free Seas Alliance® to identify ways to stop land-based trash from ever reaching the ocean. In 2017, Dow developed a trash bag made from post-industrial plastic scrap, opening doors for new, previously difficult-to-recycle packaging formats to enter the recycling stream. The bags were used to clean up beaches around the United States during Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup in September of 2017. The following year, Dow joined several other major global brands in becoming a founding investor in Circulate Capital’s $100 million effort to incubate and finance companies and infrastructure that prevent waste in oceans.
In 2018, Dow announced its intention to further invest and develop new global initiatives and solutions that work to prevent and remediate plastic waste in the environment. The initiatives, announced in conjunction with the recent Our Ocean Conference in Bali, Indonesia, include Dow’s commitment to join several other major global brands to become a founding investor in Circulate Capital’s $100 million effort to incubate and finance companies and infrastructure that prevent waste in oceans. Dow also announced at the Conference that it intends to donate an additional $1 million to Ocean Conservancy over the next two years to support waste collection and recycling solutions in Southeast Asian countries. This money would be used for projects that build the capacity of local non-governmental organizations and partnerships with city leaders to develop, scale and replicate implementable solutions.
P&G
Procter & Gamble is committed to help reduce the flow of plastic into our oceans. P&G has joined forces with organizations like The Ocean Conservancy's Trash Free Seas Alliance, The Ocean Project, The Recycling Partnership, The Circular Plastics Alliance and others to help people treat plastic waste as a resource rather than a throw away.
In addition, P&G CEO, David Taylor, has been named chairman of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, an international organization of 30 companies that have committed more than $1 billion to eliminate pollution in the ocean and elsewhere. The association focuses on bringing together businesses, governments and civil society to help end plastic waste.
Some of Alliance to End Plastic Waste’s projects include:
- Partnering with cities to design waste management systems in large urban areas where infrastructure is lacking, especially those along rivers
- Developing an open source, science-based global information project to support waste management projects with data collection, metrics, standards and methodologies to help governments, companies and investors focus on and accelerate actions to halt plastic waste
- Collaborating with intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations to conduct joint training for government officials and community-based leaders to help pursue solutions
- Supporting Renew Oceans to aid localized investment and engagement. The program is designed to capture plastic waste before it reaches the ocean from the 10 major rivers shown to carry the vast majority of waste to the sea.
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
14.3) 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 (IUU) 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
Cargill
With the release in 2019 of the latest Cargill Aqua Nutrition Sustainability report, Cargill shows measurable progress in its aqua nutrition business. Prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, the report captures important performance measures on environmental and social indicators. Based on a value chain approach, it broadens the perspective of sustainability beyond the direct impact of our operations and into wider societal impacts. As a major feed producer and contributor to food production, Cargill Aqua Nutrition is positioned to positively impact several of the SDGs, and has aligned its sustainability management and reporting to these goals. For 2019’s report, the business chose to highlight the SDGs that mirror its material sustainability topics, focusing on goals 2, 3, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 17. More information is available at Cargill stories and Cargill sustainability.
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
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
Means of Implementation
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 SIDS and LDCs
World Ocean Council
The World Ocean Council (WOC) is the international, cross-sectoral alliance for private sector leadership and collaboration in ocean sustainable development, stewardship and science, i.e. “Corporate Ocean Responsibility” for the ocean 71% of the planet. Through the WOC’s “Smart Ocean - Smart Industries” Platform, leadership companies are improving our understanding of the ocean by using commercial vessels and platforms to cost effectively collect ocean, weather and climate data from the blue planet. This information supports the ability for the international community to understand climate change, measure, manage and protect marine biodiversity, and advance disaster reduction.
To read more about other SDG goals WOC aims to reach by 2030, click here.
14.B) Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
Walmart
Walmart’s commitment to sourcing sustainable seafood promotes collaborative efforts that bring together farmers, processors, importers, local governments, NGOs and manufacturers to develop region-specific fishery and aquaculture improvement projects. For example, National Fish & Seafood Inc., a Walmart supplier, has collaborated with the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and Global Aquaculture Alliance to make it feasible for small farmers to become certified to globally recognized sustainability standards. Together, they’ve created the Small Farm Aquaculture Improvement Project (AIP), which assists scores of independent farmers in addressing important issues and achieving BAP certification.
14.C) Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS, 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
Walmart
Walmart aspires to have 100 percent of its fresh, frozen, farmed and wild seafood to be third–party certified by Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) or Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP), or managing a program in accordance with the Principles of Credible Sustainability Programs developed by The Sustainability Consortium, or actively working toward certification, involved in a Fishery Improvement Project or Aquaculture Improvement Project in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Sam’s Club U.S. To date, more than 90 percent of Walmart U.S, Sam’s Club U.S., Asda and Walmart Canada’s fresh and frozen, farmed and wild seafood is sustainably sourced in accordance with Walmart’s Seafood Policy (69 percent is certified by MSC and 95 percent of our farmed supply chain is certified by BAP). Additionally, 15 percent of their supply is involved in Fishery Improvement Projects, with plans in place to achieve sustainable certification.