Development and implementation of the Brazilian Blue Fund
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Description
Brazil is already taking steps towards a stronger and more comprehensive coastal-marine strategy through the Brazilian Mangrove, Marine and Coastal Protected Areas, Terramar and Pro-Species projects, among others, which are delivering studies and proposals for new protected areas, better integration with and promotion of sustainable use by artisanal fishermen and other local and traditional communities, integration into climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and biodiversity monitoring. The Brazilian Mangrove Project will deliver also a national Mangrove Atlas and a National Mangrove Conservation and Sustainable Use Programme. The Marine and Coastal Protected Areas Project is promoting biodiversity studies and monitoring to support the increase of the total areas under protection. A new project, the Terramar, is also developing methodologies and policy proposals to improve the management of seascapes.
The Brazilian Government, through the Ministry of the Environment and the Chico Mendes Institute (the Brazilian federal protected areas and threatened species agency), with a view to achieving nationally and internationally agreed goals and targets, will upscale and improve its coastal-marine strategies by establishing an umbrella national coastal-marine programme and setting up the Brazilian Blue Fund to support the programme's implementation.
These measures are intended to contribute to the achievement of the 10% coastal and marine jurisdictional areas with some area-based conservation measure and the consolidation of existing and the establishment of new protected areas. Key elements of the enhanced strategy will focus on the integration of coastal land- and seascapes, the promotion of sustainable tourism, including through community-based approaches, the integration of protected areas and sustainable use of biodiversity by local and traditional communities, and the promotion of volunteering, inter alia.
The programme and funding mechanisms, when fully established, will innovate in terms of supporting partnerships for the management of existing protected and conserved areas and other conservation measures. This deliverable will also support other Brazilian commitments.
Complementary fundraising initiatives both national and international from government and non-government sources are also required. These resources should be additional to existing and projected government budget allocations and other income sources, including the Brazilian environmental compensation mechanism. These estimates are the result of studies and evaluation of execution capacity. The programme and funding mechanisms will innovate in terms of partnerships for management and execution of project activities.
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 |
|---|---|
| 14.4 | 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.b | Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets |
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Claudio Maretti, Brazilian Protected Areas and Biodiversity Institute (ICMBio)