How Karnataka coastal communities can solve marine debris issue
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Non-governmental organization (NGO)
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#OceanAction42025
Description
1. Provide full marine literacy of coastal communities
2. Operationalize the disposal system of fish gears
3. Reverse the lack of national, regional and state policies on marine litter and marine literacy
4. Speed up the implementation of Solid and Plastic Waste Management Rules 2016 to prevent marine trash
5. Set up a simple engineering system applied at rivers/backwaters outlet just before monsoon to catch a large amount of the trash thrown into the ocean by the rains
Methodology
1. Work through all clusters of the loop (information, knowledge, awareness, mindfulness and practice)
2. Assess the local psycho-social-anthropological constrains for good practices to overcome them
3. Create a platform for outreach of informal education sector
4. Draw specific collaboration from all stakeholders, and catalyze additional action to implement the needful changes.
5. Create a good practices chart for port authorities (civil and military), fishermen and fisherwomen at household and fish markets level
6. Implement stewardship concern among coastal communities, namely for discarded fishnets and domestic waste
7. Launch new Incentives schemes for fishnet dealers and byers (e.g. discount on the of purchase a new fish net, if returning x discarded ones), for fish market packaging, for fish breaks composting, etc.
Monthly follow-up and quarterly monitoring will be ensured by a volunteers team lead by Khushi Parisara.
Municipality Chief Officers
Panchayat Development Officers
District and Taluka Panchayat Executive Officers
District and Taluka Health Officers
Tahshildars
MLA, GP & Municipal Counselors
Assistant Commissioners
Directors of Fisheries
Assistant Executive Engineers
Chief Executive Officers
District Commissionners
Directors of Ports
Deputy Directors of Fisheries
Regional Pollution Control Boards
Block Education Officers
Education Coordinators
Cluster Resource Persons
Eco-Clubs Coordinators
Shishu Abhiradi Ilakes
Directors Mass Education
Directors Muzrai
Principal Secretaries Forest Ecology & Environment
Secretary Environment
NGOs
Greengold Global Research Institute
Teachers Unions
Spark Team
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 |
|---|---|
| 14.1 | By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution |
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