Creating Blue Ocean Future for a Healthy Ocean and Healthy Economies

Blue Ocean Future (

Non-governmental organization (NGO)

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Description

The financing gap for nature, ocean, and climate is estimated at $4 trillion annually. The obstacle is not the absence of capital — it is the absence of the right interface between available finance and investable opportunities at the right scale, in the right form, for the right stakeholders.

Blue Ocean Future is that interface — a continuous, GIS-enriched, area-based natural capital and social impact data platform built on the BOF Impact Standard. Developed through four years of research, policy engagement, and field work, and validated by an arms-length Scientific Panel incorporating both scientific and indigenous knowledge systems, BOF delivers dynamic, verified intelligence that static annual certifications cannot provide.

The platform serves sovereign governments, development finance institutions, commercial banks, asset managers, NGOs, community organizations, and data providers — giving each the data, indexes, and decision-support tools calibrated to their specific reporting obligations and investment mandates through a single integrated system.

Blue Ocean Future is not a passive data repository. It is activated by its users. Communities document their stewardship. Governments record their commitments and outcomes. Investors track and verify their impact in real time. Project developers demonstrate bankable proof of concept. Each act of good work feeds back into the indexed record — making the platform more credible, more valuable, and more powerful for every participant. The platform rallies as much as it informs.

Blue Ocean Future has been in development since the early work of Earthtwine, deepened through the World Ocean Council, the UN Ocean Conference 2017, the World Ocean Council Sustainable Ocean Summit 2019, and the intensive collaboration of the pandemic period alongside partners from End Pandemics and a growing constellation of science, policy, finance, and community practitioners.

This is not a closed system. It is a movement as much as a platform — open, continuously expanding, designed to keep including and fostering opportunity across every sector and scale that touches the health of the ocean, the land, and the communities that depend on both. Like the youth leaders of Man Up Campaign who took root in thirty countries without being directed from the center, Blue Ocean Future is built to grow where conditions are right — activated by the people doing the work, multiplied by their good acts, and accountable to the commons that makes all of it possible.

We have done this before as a civilization. The global response to ozone depletion proved that when science, policy, finance, and industry share common data infrastructure and act together, planetary wounds can heal within a generation. Blue Ocean Future is designed to be that shared infrastructure for the challenges ahead.

Description

World Ocean Council: Blue Ocean Future - Healthy Ocean Healthy Economies Our transformative Purpose is collaboratively developing platforms and bringing multidisciplinary expertise to enable large-scale investment to facilitate a Healthy Ocean and Healthy Coasts. Blue Ocean Future, a non-profit entity, offers advisory services and innovative platforms to achieve this goal. Objectives: 1. Create integrated, systematic, area-based decision-making platforms for stakeholders in jurisdictions, countries, counties, municipalities, tribal areas, and private lands to restore ocean and coastal ecosystems and facilitate the transition to sustainable economies. Our services and products provide advisory capacity for climate action, biodiversity regeneration, marine economy scenario development, and predictive planning, allowing stakeholders to make choices and facilitate financial flows of public and private investment, grants, and appropriate donation opportunities. 2. To gather experts and communities of practice and science, industry, policy, and technology to develop processes and platforms to harmonize human and natural capital in a commonly accepted, transparent, inclusive, and collaborative manner to implement climate action, biodiverse regeneration, and Ocean and coasts and sustainable economies. 3. Consult on financial and technical architecture to support the restoration of ecosystem resources, address climate change, preserve biodiversity, and accelerate the transition to sustainable economies. 4. To facilitate governance that allows informed participation of all local stakeholders and supports science, social, and economic value creation, restoration, and stewardship of ecosystems, working toward inclusive and equitable outcomes locally and internationally.

Expected Impact

BOF methodologies in EcoCubeTM, BlueCubeTM, GeenCubeTM, and DualCubeTM. These methods capitalize on a holistic understanding of ecosystem resources and their economic implications. The outcomes of these methodologies will aid in envisioning, establishing benchmarks, managing, and illuminating scenarios conducive to nurturing sustainable economies. Moreover, they will serve as a cornerstone for enabling diverse investment forms, including public, private, and blended opportunities. Our method aligns itself with established frameworks like the African Union Blue Economy Strategy, the Africa Integrated Maritime Strategy, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals, the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate, the Cumming Montreal Treaty on BioDiversity, and the 2030 SDG Goals. This alignment facilitates projects to resonate with global and regional consensus, enhancing project impact and contributing to the development of worldwide public goods, thereby amplifying project value for stakeholders at local and international levels.

Implementation of the Project/Activity

Since the original commitment in September 2023, Blue Ocean Future has executed an active three-year program across Kenya, Sierra Leone, and India, establishing institutional partnerships, operational foundations, and policy positioning at multilateral scale.

MOUs Executed:
— May 16, 2022: MOU with SOL Connect n Consult (India) — institutional bridge enabling BOF operational presence and university partnership coordination in India
— July 2023: MOU with Government of Sierra Leone on Blue Economy Strategy implementation
— September 2023: MOU with National Black Chamber of Commerce and JKP Economic Development Corp of Kenya Coastal Governors
— October 2023: MOU with Black Pearl Investments — $100 million impact investment commitment announced at JABEIC 2023, Mombasa (November 28), demonstrating institutional capital readiness for deployment
— June 2025: MOU with Muzambringa Sierra Leone Sustainable Development Business Accelerator — Freetown, Sierra Leone

Field Work:
— 2024: Attended JABIAC Jumuiya Agribusiness and Blue Economy Investment Conference, Mombasa — toured five Indian Ocean coastal counties with governors: Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, Lamu, Taita Taveta. Engaged Tana River Governor at conference; Tana River deputy subsequently met at CSW.

Current Deployment Status:

Kenya (Kilifi MVP Focus): BOF is developing and launching the Kilifi Kenya area-based investment portfolio as the first MVP deployment corridor, coordinating sustainable aquaculture, agroforestry, and coastal livelihood formalization through the Wazuri Farms network (500 trained farmers) and GoBlue 2.0 EU framework. Target: First investment commitment and operational kickoff within 6 months, with sustainable business model validation. Parallel advancement of the Kenya AfDB KLDC (Kisumu Lakefront Development Corporation) proposal positions Kisumu as a supporting coastal blue economy hub, expanding reach across six counties.

Sierra Leone (RAIA Operationalization): BOF and Muzambringa are co-creating the Regenerative Acceleration & Impact Agreement (RAIA) — a milestone-gated capital and verified impact framework establishing four-stage performance verification, dual-signatory escrow releases, independent MRV verification, and mandatory return recycling into the next cohort. Muzambringa is reviewing prospective founders and early-stage companies (Feed Salone focus) for acceleration. Threshold conditions for activation include Muzambiringa and cohort company signatories, identification of a specific impact investor from Black Pearl or philanthropic capital, escrow account establishment, and BOF Scientific Panel readiness for baseline MRV audits. Feasibility study capital is required to complete due diligence and launch conditions.

India (KUFOS Knowledge Transfer): BOF partnership with SOL Connect n Consult bridges institutional access and coordinates with Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS). SOL enables BOF operational presence in India while facilitating university talent integration and research coordination. The collaboration is developing an integrated agroforestry project for carbon sequestration and biodiversity restoration across coastal Kerala. KUFOS collaboration focuses on technology transfer in sustainable aquaculture and coastal agroforestry, development of export-grade standards, capacity building for smallholder producers transitioning to formalized supply chains, and research on sustainable fish meal alternatives. KUFOS is being positioned as the global standards authority for sustainable marine ingredients.

Capital Convening:
— April 2024: BOF attended IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, Washington DC — meetings with World Bank, USAID, and ORAA on ocean economy financing
— June 2024: Co-hosted "Why Africa?" Family Office Roundtable with NBCC, Black Pearl Investments, and US Government Prosper Africa initiative
— November 2023: Announced $100 million impact investment commitment led by Black Pearl Investments and Blue Ocean Future at JABEIC 2023, Mombasa

UN Process Engagement:
— June 2022: Convened UN Ocean Conference Blue Bonds Side Event, Lisbon — speakers from Seychelles, UNDP, Nature Conservancy, Nuveen Capital
— April 2023: Briefing on science-based evidence, UN General Assembly 77th session
— February 2025: Spoke at UN Prep Com 3, FfD4 — finance gap interface framework
— June 2025: Participated in FfD4 Seville — Seville Commitment and Platform for Action
— April 2026: Formal intervention at FfD Forum, UN Headquarters Room 4 — recording at UN Web TV
— June 2026: Subject Expert, Blue India 2026 KUFOS Roundtable on Indian Marine Ingredients, Kochi Kerala

Sierra Leone Government Engagement:
Sustained multi-forum engagement with Sierra Leone government representatives at international forums including FfD, HLPF, CSW, and the FfD4 Seville conference. BOF provided direct advisory support for development of Sierra Leone's national Blue Economy Strategy through these multilateral forums. Presidential and Finance Ministry meeting being established. Partnership with Muzambringa Sierra Leone Sustainable Development Business Accelerator established through remote coordination. Planned in-country field visit to Sierra Leone pending completion of baseline due diligence and RAIA threshold conditions.

Methodology Development:
Beyond-GDP natural capital accounting framework developed incorporating natural capital sovereign balance sheet methodology, SDR allocation reform, ratings agency reform, global commons blue bond instrument for landlocked nations under UNCLOS, Indigenous stewardship financing, and diaspora corridor finance strategy.

Challenges & Pathway Forward:

Securing feasibility study capital for MVP areas and loading Blue Ocean Future with baseline scenario development and stakeholder due diligence remains the primary constraint. This blocks progress on SDGs 5 (Gender Equality), 8 (Decent Work), 13 (Climate Action), and 14 (Life Below Water). Natural capital and social impact data infrastructure is an asset class few investors have encountered; the institutional pathway forward is positioning holistic, area-based credits — integrating biodiversity, ocean economy, and livelihoods — as the interface between the $4 trillion annual financing gap and investable opportunities. This requires positioning natural capital as a sovereign balance sheet asset through Beyond Gross Domestic Product accounting frameworks (FfD4 Seville) and operationalizing area-based credits aligned to Kunming-Montreal biodiversity targets.

Geographic Expansion:

BOF formally opens a $2 billion commitment to expand natural capital financing and area-based regenerative frameworks across multiple geographies. Core implementation currently operates in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and India. Near-term expansion targets include Tanzania (coordinating with Kenya as an integrated East African coastal zone, requiring UNCDF partnership confirmation and FAO technical assistance alignment) and Liberia (coordinating with Sierra Leone as an integrated West African coastal zone). Medium-term scaling positions area-based credit issuance across all three corridors as Kunming-Montreal 30x30 implementation pathways.

BOF is open to demonstration projects in Haiti, Kerala, and Caribbean Small Island Developing States, with particular focus on landlocked developing nations requiring innovative financing instruments aligned to UNCLOS global commons frameworks.

For granular detail on current implementation progress, challenges, next steps, beneficiaries, and specific actions, please refer to the Blue Ocean Future Partnership Progress Report at https://sdgs.un.org/partnership-progress/creating-blue-ocean-future-healthy-ocean-and-healthy-economies-thu-07232026

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

Blue Ocean Future builds capacity through three integrated approaches that governments, multilateral institutions, and development finance partners can deploy for their stakeholders.

An Innovation Filter methodology identifies which businesses within a country or region are ready for investment, which need preparation, and which generate impact credits that add revenue above their commercial bottom line — turning accelerator programs into bankable pipelines rather than training exercises.

A productive inclusion framework embeds women, youth, and vulnerable workers directly inside expanding private enterprises with real digital tools, technology transfer, and market connections — generating stronger human capital outcomes than standalone training and funded from natural capital financing returns rather than aid budgets.

Technology transfer flows in both directions — platforms, market access, and financing tools to communities and governments; generational indigenous ecological knowledge to the indexed record that institutional capital depends on. This transfer is accelerated through BOF's private sector network partners — including the World Ocean Council, Earth Team Alliance, and Living Planet Working Group — organizations with deep field experience across dozens of countries that carry best practices, sector expertise, and established relationships directly into new geographies.

Capacity

Global — with active project geographies in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and India. BOF maintains an open commitment to Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States, and Landlocked Developing Nations. BOF also engages developed country partners for trade facilitation, technical transfer, and coordination of Official Development Assistance (ODA), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and complementary finance programs.

Coordination mechanisms

Blue Ocean Future coordinates through five interlocking structures:

National, Sub-National, and Indigenous/Tribal Governance Partners — BOF recognizes three co-equal tiers of jurisdictional authority. National governments provide policy frameworks and sovereign commitments. Sub-national authorities provide implementation jurisdiction and community accountability. Indigenous and tribal governance authorities are recognized as primary stewards where traditional land, water, and resource rights are present — their knowledge systems, consent, and leadership are foundational to the natural capital baseline, not supplementary to it. Current coordination includes the Government of Sierra Leone, the Government of Kenya, and Jumuiya ya Kaunti za Pwani across six coastal counties through the GoBlue framework.

Scientific Panel — An arms-length Scientific Panel incorporating both scientific and indigenous knowledge systems validates the BOF Impact Standard and ensures natural capital indexes meet international scientific and ethical standards.

Communities of Practice — Thematic working groups convene experts across science, policy, finance, technology, and community practice — operating across Earth Team Alliance, Living Planet Working Group, World Ocean Council, and BOF's growing partner network.

Area-Based Project Teams — Each active geography — currently Kenya, Sierra Leone, India and US Virgin Islands — is coordinated through a dedicated project team combining BOF staff, local government partners, indigenous authorities, community organizations, and technical advisors. MOUs establish roles, reporting, and accountability for each geography.

UN System Integration — BOF maintains active engagement in the NGO Committee on Finance for Development, HLPF side events, FfD processes, and CSW delegations through Man Up Campaign's ECOSOC Special Consultative Status.

Decision-making follows a collaborative model — indigenous and tribal authorities anchor stewardship knowledge and consent, national and sub-national governments provide jurisdictional authority, the Scientific Panel validates methodology, project teams implement with local partners, and BOF leadership coordinates across geographies ensuring accountability to the commons.

Governed

Blue Ocean Future is governed through a multi-stakeholder structure designed to ensure accountability to the commons as much as to investors and partners.

Board of Directors — Blue Ocean Future Inc. is a US nonprofit governed by a Board of Directors with fiduciary responsibility for the organization's mission, finances, and strategic direction.

Scientific Panel — An independent arms-length Scientific Panel validates the BOF Impact Standard and natural capital methodology, incorporating both scientific and indigenous knowledge systems. The Panel operates independently of commercial and organizational interests.

Partner Governance — MOUs with government partners, community organizations, and institutional partners establish mutual accountability, shared decision-making protocols, and benefit-sharing arrangements at the project level.

Community Voice — Local stakeholder participation is embedded in every area-based engagement — ensuring that the communities whose land and waters are being indexed have meaningful voice in how that data is used and how benefits flow back to them.

Man Up Campaign — Through Man Up Campaign's ECOSOC Special Consultative Status, BOF maintains formal civil society standing within the UN system, ensuring youth, women, indigenous peoples, and gender-diverse communities have representation in governance of initiatives that affect them.

Geospatial and AI Data Governance — Blue Ocean Future aligns its GIS-enriched natural capital platform with the Locus Charter for ethical and responsible use of location data. BOF applies FAIR data principles across all platform data. Indigenous Data Sovereignty is protected through the CARE Principles — ensuring indigenous and tribal communities retain authority over how their traditional ecological knowledge is collected, stored, used, and shared. Any application of artificial intelligence follows the UN Secretary General's AI Advisory Body recommendations. BOF participates in UN-GGIM as part of its commitment to international geospatial governance standards.

Evaluation

Blue Ocean Future evaluates impact through the BOF Impact Standard — a continuous, GIS-enriched, area-based measurement, reporting, and verification framework that sets natural capital baselines, tracks progress against planetary boundaries, and coordinates financial flows toward verified improvement in ecosystem health and community wellbeing.

Natural Capital and Boundary Indexes — BOF anchors its measurement framework to the Human Development Index — the universally recognized composite measure that every government, multilateral institution, and development finance body already uses. Beneath HDI, BOF organizes impact through four major thematic indexes: Carbon and Decarbonization, Biodiversity, Wellbeing, and Economic performance — cross-referenced against planetary boundary science and localized to each project geography.

The platform integrates rather than competes with existing international measurement frameworks — FAO, UN Women, UNDP, ISSB IFRS S1/S2, EU SFDR, Kunming-Montreal, and the full suite of SDG targets — allowing the same verified natural capital data to serve every stakeholder's reporting language simultaneously.

Beyond-GDP Accounting — BOF is building a natural capital sovereign balance sheet framework enabling nations to account for the full value of their natural assets alongside conventional GDP. Presented at the UN General Assembly 77th Session as Lead Discussant on Science Beyond GDP and refined through interventions at FfD4 Seville and the FfD Forum at UN Headquarters.

Independent Verification — An arms-length Scientific Panel reviews methodology and validates findings. Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge systems are incorporated as co-equal evidence sources alongside scientific data.

Partners

Additional information

Blue Ocean Future has been in gestation since the early work preparing for the Education Caucus at Rio+20, which helped spring the Major Groups framework into the UN system — a process that included circulating a People’s Outcome with Felix Dodds and others. In the wake of Rio+20 came the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, along with the formal recognition of UN Major Groups as civil society’s seat at the table. At a 2015 youth meeting on the World We Want — convened at the Bahai International Community Center with youth teams and like-minded NGOs engaged in the UN system — it became clear that data and information would be critical to whether the world was serious about accomplishing these goals. That conviction deepened through the CSW Youth Forum 2016 and early projects, including Earthtwine, an ERP platform developed to clean up the global seafood supply chain. It continued to evolve through insights from the World Ocean Council, the UN Ocean Conference 2017, the World Ocean Council Sustainable Ocean Summit 2019 in Paris, and the intensive collaboration of the pandemic period — and now finds its expanding community of practice in Earth Team Alliance, the Living Planet Working Group, End Pandemics, and a growing constellation of partners across science, policy, business, finance, and community practice worldwide.

SDGS & Targets

Goal 5

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

5.1

End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

5.1.1

Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex

5.2

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

5.2.1

Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age

5.2.2

Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence

5.3

Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

5.3.1

Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18

5.3.2

Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age

5.4

Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

5.4.1

Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location

5.5

Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

5.5.1

Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments

5.5.2

Proportion of women in managerial positions

5.6

Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

5.6.1

Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care

5.6.2

Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education

5.a

Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

5.a.1

(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

5.a.2

Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control

5.b

Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

5.b.1

Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex

5.c

Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

5.c.1

Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment

Goal 13

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

13.1

Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

13.1.1

Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

13.1.2

Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

13.1.3

Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

13.2

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

13.2.1

Number of countries with reports under the Paris Agreement, as submitted to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

13.2.2

Total greenhouse gas emissions per year

13.3

Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

13.3.1

Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment

13.a

Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

13.a.1

Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025

13.b

Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

13.b.1

Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with reports under the Paris Agreement, as submitted to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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

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

Goal 15

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

15.1

By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements

15.1.1

Forest area as a proportion of total land area

15.1.2

Proportion of important sites for terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity that are covered by protected areas, by ecosystem type

15.2

By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally

15.2.1

Progress towards sustainable forest management

15.3

By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world

15.3.1

Proportion of land that is degraded over total land area

15.4

By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development

15.4.1

Coverage by protected areas of important sites for mountain biodiversity

15.4.2

(a) Mountain Green Cover Index and (b) proportion of degraded mountain land

15.5

Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species

15.5.1

Red List Index

15.6

Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed

15.6.1

Number of countries that have adopted legislative, administrative and policy frameworks to ensure fair and equitable sharing of benefits

15.7

Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products

15.7.1

Proportion of traded wildlife that was poached or illicitly trafficked

15.8

By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species

15.8.1

Proportion of countries adopting relevant national legislation and adequately resourcing the prevention or control of invasive alien species

15.9

By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts

15.9.1

(a) Number of countries that have established national targets in accordance with or similar to Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Target 14 in their national biodiversity strategy and action plans and the progress reported towards these targets; and (b) integration of biodiversity into national accounting and reporting systems, defined as implementation of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting

15.a

Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems

15.a.1

(a) Official development assistance on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; and (b) revenue generated and finance mobilized from biodiversity-relevant economic instruments

15.b

Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation

15.b.1

(a) Official development assistance on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; and (b) revenue generated and finance mobilized from biodiversity-relevant economic instruments

15.c

Enhance global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities

15.c.1

Proportion of traded wildlife that was poached or illicitly trafficked

SDG 14 targets covered

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
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
14.3	Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
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
14.5	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
14.6	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
14.7	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.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.b	Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
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"

Deliverables & Timeline

01 January, 2025

Consult and Advise on the Blue Economy Strategy for Country of Sierra Leone

01 September, 2026

Consult and Advise on the Carbon Markets, Registry and Credits for Country of Sierra Leone

31 May, 2030

Target of commitment finance fulfilled by projects globally in focus LCDs, SIDs And Landlocked Developing States.

31 December, 2030

Target of commitment finance and fulfilled by projects globally in focus LCDs, SIDs And Landlocked Developing States to support the Regenerative Circular Economies with Well Being of both people and nature, and our goal, which is central to this Ocean becoming healthier.

Resources mobilized

Financing (in USD)

Will facilitate the climate action, biodiversity and SDG funding 2 billion

Staff / Technical expertise

BOF methodologies in EcoCubeTM, BlueCubeTM, GeenCubeTM, and DualCubeTM Platform

Staff / Technical expertise

Are supported by IoT Arrays & Testing & Data Science, Blockchain Technologies

Staff / Technical expertise

Marine Economy, applied technology, finance and policy expertise

Partnership Progress

Title	Progress Status	Submitted
Creating Blue Ocean Future for a Healthy Ocean and Healthy Economies - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 01:50	On track	23 July, 2026

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Timeline

01 September 2023 (start date)

31 December 2030 (date of completion)

Entity

Blue Ocean Future

SDGs

5 13 14 15

Region

Global

Geographical coverage

Global

Other beneficiaries

More information

https://www.blueoceanfuture.org

Countries

Kenya

Sierra Leone

Contact Information

Fred, Executive Director

fred@blueoceanfuture.org

Creating Blue Ocean Future for a Healthy Ocean and Healthy Economies

Blue Ocean Future ( Non-governmental organization (NGO) )

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Goal 5

5.1

5.1.1

5.2

5.2.1

5.2.2

5.3

5.3.1

5.3.2

5.4

5.4.1

5.5

5.5.1

5.5.2

5.6

5.6.1

5.6.2

5.a

5.a.1

5.a.2

5.b

5.b.1

5.c

5.c.1

Goal 13

13.1

13.1.1

13.1.2

13.1.3

13.2

13.2.1

13.2.2

13.3

13.3.1

13.a

13.a.1

13.b

13.b.1

Goal 14

14.1

14.1.1

14.2

14.2.1

14.3

14.3.1

14.4

14.4.1

14.5

14.5.1

14.6

14.6.1

14.7

14.7.1

14.a

14.a.1

14.b

14.b.1

14.c

14.c.1

Goal 15

15.1

15.1.1

15.1.2

15.2

15.2.1

15.3

15.3.1

15.4

15.4.1

15.4.2

15.5

15.5.1

15.6

15.6.1

15.7

15.7.1

15.8

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Non-governmental organization (NGO)

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