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• Target 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

  Terms: Science, Marine biodiversity, Capacity building, Technology transfer, Small Island Developing Countries, Least developed countries, Benefit sharing

  • Indicator 14.a.1: Proportion of total research budget allocated to research in the field of marine technology

• Target 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”

  Terms: conservation, Sustainable use

  • Indicator 14.c.1: Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nation Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources

• Target 14.b: Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets

  Terms: Fishery, Artisanal fishery, Access rights

  • Indicator 14.b.1: Progress by countries in the degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small-scale fisheries

• Target 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

  Terms: Marine pollution, Land-based marine pollution, Marine debris, Food security, Ship-based marine pollution

  • Indicator 14.1.1: Index of coastal eutrophication and floating plastic debris density

• Target 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

  Terms: conservation, Resilience, Ecosystem restoration, Sustainable use, Ecosystem approach, Exclusive Economic Zones

  • Indicator 14.2.1: Proportion of national exclusive economic zones managed using ecosystem-based approaches

• Target 14.3: Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels

  Terms: Ocean acidification

  • Indicator 14.3.1: Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations

• Target 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

  Terms: Fishery, Overfishing, Illegal fishing, Sustainable use, Ecosystem restoration, Drift net fishing, By-catch, Marine resources conservation

  • Indicator 14.4.1: Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels

• Target 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

  Terms: conservation, Marine protected areas, Marine spatial planning, Protected areas

  • Indicator 14.5.1: Coverage of protected areas in relation to marine areas

• Target 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 negotiationb

  Terms: Fishery, Overfishing, Illegal fishing, Subsidies, Wildlife trafficking

  • Indicator 14.6.1: Progress by countries in the degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

• Target 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

  Terms: Fishery, Fisheries management, Sustainable tourism, Aquaculture, Small Island Developing Countries, Least developed countries, Payment for ecosystem service, Access rights

  • Indicator 14.7.1: Sustainable fisheries as a percentage of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries