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Description
In the Indian Ocean region, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (ESSO-INCOIS) is one of the few centres providing value added and comprehensive ocean-service products to a vast array of users (from fishermen folk to marine industries). INCOIS relies heavily on advances in satellite oceanography, modeling capabilities, and vast in-situ observation networks. INCOIS focus areas are mainly :
Tsunami early warning
Marine fishery advisory
Ocean State forecast during severe weather events
Coral bleaching alerts
Coastal geospatial applications
Updates on climate indices etc.
An International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOocean) was set up by the Ministry of Earth Sciences under Earth System Science Organization (ESSO) at the ESSO-INCOIS in Hyderabad in 2012.
ITCOocean shares the benefits of operational oceanography to the Indian Ocean Rim countries and other developing nations. More than 660 researchers, university students, state and central government officials, including around 100 foreign experts from 33 countries of the Indian Ocean region and from Europe have attended the training courses.
A state of the art E-class room is available with the facility to link different research centres, organizations and participants across the globe, making the training class room, a truly global classroom and providing seamless access of INCOIS training programmes to all interested participants.
UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and ITCOocean signed an MoA in 2013 followed by a Letter of Intent between the Ministry of Earth Sciences and UNESCO in 2014, providing that INCOIS will be developed as a UNESCO "Category 2 Centre for promoting effective exchange of data and information on natural hazards; developing courses for early warning systems for disaster risk reduction; generating scientific methods for capacity development programs in GIS and remote sensing, etc. In 2015 ITCOocean was recognized as a Regional Training Centre (RTC) of the Ocean Teacher Global Academy (OTGA) of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) to offer training in Operational Oceanography for the benefit of Indian Ocean Rim countries. Efforts are underway to upgrade the centre into Category-2 Centre of UNESCO.
India will continue to work to enhance the research and training capacities of INCOIS.
SDGS & Targets
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
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
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
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
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
14.4.1
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
14.5.1
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
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
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
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
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
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in 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"
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 Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 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.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 |
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Tanmaya Lal, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative