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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

Commitment to international education regarding the major environmental issue of marine litter in our global ocean through multi-lingual visual media as well as continued lectures.

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    Mary Crowley and the Ocean Voyages Institute team are committed to continuing the education of youth and people throughout the world on the issue of plastics in our global ocean, helping to educate people about how they can be part of the solution, by changes in behavior in terms of refusing throw away plastics, reducing their use of plastics of all types, recycling plastics they encounter and removing plastics from our natural environment through all levels of clean up, be it in their neighborhoods, their parks, their rivers, their beaches, their waterways, lakes and beyond.

    Mary and the Institute team will continue to be available to give lectures and be involved in other pollution oriented round tables and other types of discussions and interviews upon request and/or invitation. The particular areas of expertise in plastic pollution in our global ocean stem from 8 years of research expeditions with Project Kaisei in various parts of the Pacific Ocean including the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, and coastal regions from California to British Columbia, studying marine litter and its impacts on the marine environment.

    Video footage will be compiled and translated into multiple languages and available for international distribution, along with photographic imagery from the various expeditions, highlighting the urgency of the major global environmental problem of marine litter.

    Through education and information, we can inspire changes in habits and substantially decrease the use of throw away plastics, resulting in a healthier ocean and a healthier planet.
    Partners
    Ocean Voyages Institute, Project Kaisei, Pathways to Peace

    Goal 14

    Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

    Goal 14

    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
    Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations

    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
    Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels

    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
    Coverage of protected areas in relation to marine areas

    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
    Proportion of total research budget allocated to research in the field of marine technology

    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

    Name Description
    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
    Access to multi-lingual expedition video footage and photos to the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone that illustrate the problems of plastic proliferation in the gyre.
    Lecture series on major global environmental issue of marine litter and what can be done about it.
    Other, please specify
    Extensive video footage and photographic imagery from 4 expeditions studying plastic in the Pacific Ocean.
    Other, please specify
    Scientific research on plastic pollution in the marine environment from above mentioned 4 expeditions.
    No progress reports have been submitted. Please sign in and click here to submit one.
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    01 January 1970 (start date)
    01 January 1970 (date of completion)
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    Ocean Voyages Institute
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    Sausalito, CA USA
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    Global
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    Mary Crowley, President/Founder