Ocean Solutions That Benefit People, Nature and the Economy

For the 40 percent of the world’s population that leaving the ocean alone; it means proactively managing live within 150 kilometres of the coast and the hundreds human activities to use the ocean wisely rather than of millions of others who visit it, the ocean is central using it up, in order to help build a much richer future in to their lives1. [...] a sustainable ocean economy, underpinned by the The global economy and the livelihoods of three Ps of effective protection, sustainable production hundreds of millions of people depend on the and equitable prosperity. [...] The ocean provides a sense of wonder, solace and The biodiversity of the open ocean declined by connection to the natural world and is deeply up to 50 percent over the past 50 years23, and the woven into the cultural and spiritual lives of relative abundance of different species has shifted billions of coastal dwellers. [...] Governments can lead the way by mandating To be successful, ocean plans must find a balance these standards and helping create data networks between the requirements of different ocean users, that aggregate decentralised data into a common, between the needs of the ocean and the needs of the searchable database. [...] and restaurants in much of the world, and the adoption Establishment of a sustainable ocean task force at the of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the (ocean) ministerial or head of state level with a mandate ozone layer are all examples of changes that required to adapt the sustainable ocean agenda to the national major shifts in attitudes and laws that occurred within context coul.