A new global programme for private/public sponsorship: Take OFF, Take Ocean For Future
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Description
We believe that academic exchange and transdisciplinary research are the key to our future; it is the springboard for knowledge and innovation.
For its 50th anniversary, the Institut Océanographique Paul Ricard and Pernod Ricard group launched a new global initiative called Take OFF, Take Ocean For Future.
The Take OFF, Take Ocean For Future programme has a two-fold field of action:
• Support for young researchers at universities worldwide ;
• An appeal to businesses for scientific patronage to support marine sciences research.
Firstly, the Take OFF, Take Ocean For Future initiative actively supports marine sciences research in the following fields: biomimicry, integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, ecological restoration and natured based solutions
It provides financial support and facilities for young male and female researchers to take part in ongoing research focused on developing the protection and the sustainable management of the ocean, and on sharing while improving our knowledge of the relation between ocean and climate. The aim is to encourage their research activities and their innovations, and to enable them to develop their initiatives.
We have only one ocean, even though each country has its own perception, policies and priorities regarding the sea. It is essential to share our perceptions in order to achieve a common understanding and sustainable collective management of the oceans.
The Institut Océanographique Paul Ricard will host one student each year and will put its resources at its disposal. Soon, an international students’ residence will be opened at Les Embiez to accommodate visiting researchers and as a forum to exchange knowledge, best practices and solutions aimed at enhancing future perspectives.
This year, we have launched the initiative with our first partnership, with Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU) and Pernod Ricard Korea.
In addition, the Take OFF, Take Ocean For Future programme encourages scientific patronage. Businesses need to take action! We need companies to become more involved in protecting the ocean and dealing with climate change. We believe that companies have long provided patronage and support for the arts: they should do likewise for scientific research. Like artists, scientists need time and funding. Synergy between the scientific community and economic stakeholders is a sound basis for improving knowledge, enhancing communication and finding solutions at the interface between the ocean and climate. It is also a question of raising awareness.
Pernod Ricard
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 |
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| 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 |
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Jean-Luc Bonnefont, Scientific director