Coastal city Ocean-bAsed Solution Toolkit for sustainable development (COAST)
First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), Ministry of Natural Resources of China
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Description
FIO and DCC-OCC are committed to enhance the understanding of ocean-climate nexus and generate knowledge and science-based solutions to help mitigate, adapt to and build resilience against climate change across all geographies and at various scales, by engaging different stakeholders, developing partnership, advocating best practices and sharing high-quality public service products. One of its tangible actions is to develop the “Coastal city Ocean-bAsed Solution Toolkit for sustainable development (COAST)” for the global community and build the capacity of developing states to use this Toolkit.
COAST presently consists of six main modules, with future expansion according to users need. It includes the OCEANUS Early Warning System, Marine Navigation Safety, Coastal Ecological Health, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Blue Economy Support, and Ocean Literacy. Each main module contains four sub-modules. All of these are designed to address the core challenges of sustainable development in coastal cities through ocean-based solutions.
By integrating marine big data, state-of-art numerical models based on our scientific and technical breakthroughs, AI technologies, and capacity building, COAST provides end-users including decision-makers in coastal cities with visualized services and products related to marine hazards, ecological pollution, fishery resources, ocean literacy, and more.
Operating in the co-design, co-development, and co-benefit approach of the Ocean Decade, COAST is freely accessible to global users, and will provide high quality service for registered members along the Maritime Silk Road and in the Ocean Rise & Coastal Resilience Coalition. Its ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between marine scientific research and practical knowledge for policy-makers and the public, offering a reliable, efficient, and science-based platform of information, solutions and decision-support. This enables cost-effective, evidence-based decision-making for various marine challenges, fostering collaborative efforts to tackle sustainability issues in coastal cities and advance their sustainable development.
To promote the widespread application of COAST, there will be capacity-building initiatives prioritizing Africa, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean Rim and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), offering demand-driven and practice-oriented training courses.
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
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Fangli, Prof. Dr.