The United Nations Open Working Group has defined 17 goals to guide the international community towards sustainable living conditions and a green economy over the next 15 years. For each of these goals, various targets have been defined, with 169 targets in total. Only the targets relating to Goal 14 are set out below. SDGs 14a, 14b and 14c are not goals per se, but describe the means and measures by which sustainable development is to be achieved in various areas.
Goal 1: | End poverty in all its forms everywhere |
Goal 2: | End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture |
Goal 3: | Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages |
Goal 4: | Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all |
Goal 5: | Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls |
Goal 6: | Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all |
Goal 7: | Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all |
Goal 8: | Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all |
Goal 9: | Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sus-tainable industrialization and foster innovation |
Goal 10: | Reduce inequality within and among countries |
Goal 11: | Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable |
Goal 12: | Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns |
Goal 13: | Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts |
Goal 14: | Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development |
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 |
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 |
14a: | 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 devel-oping countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries |
14b: | Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets |
14c: | Ensure the full implementation of international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for States parties thereto, including, where applic-able, existing regional and international regimes for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by their parties |
Goal 15: | Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertifi-cation, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss |
Goal 16: | Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels |
Goal 17: | Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development |
fig. 4.4: Communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo learn how to protect themselves using mosquito nets. Malaria is a frequent cause of poverty because persons with the disease are no longer able to work. © ullstein bild/Africa Media Online