SIDS Partnership in New Sustainable Technologies
SIDS Partnership in New Sustainable Technologies
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Description
Almost all of these technologies have been applied on a pilot scale, often small due to lack of funds, but in some cases these technologies are achieving commercial success. The purpose of the partnership is get information out so that projects to implement them directly wherever most needed can be pursued by governments, companies, community groups, and NGOs. UNSIDS provides an essential platform for getting the information out to those who need these technologies but don't yet realize it, due to lack of information.Dr. Goreau has personally worked on coral reef issues in most of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific SIDS, and is familiar with their coral reef and environmental issues, and will act as a liaison to network between technologies solutions and those with problems that would be best solved using them. The other editors have also worked in many SIDS, as well as other developing and developed countries.
The Green Disc serves as a free resource for all those who seek information needed for capacity building and technology transfer.All of the many partners presenting technologies in the Green Disc are fully available to aid in Capacity-building and Technology Transfer projects, and they were specifically selected because their technologies were appropriate for problems in SIDS.Please note that the SIDS Partnership in New Sustainable Technologies was developed and registered as a UN Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership around 7 years ago, and made presentations at CSD which the CSD Partnership Office said were the most effective such presentations ever made at CSD.For some strange reason there appears to have been a glitch at the UNCSD Partnership Office which as accidentally prevented our access to our CSD Partnership web site. We should already be listed as an existing partner, and it is as a long standing CSD Partner that we wish to register in Apia. If however the computer errors mentioned above have somehow lost our registration as a currently registered CSD Partner, we wish to register again under the same name.
The partnership has 6 Editors who solicit, review, and in some cases write articles. The broadest range of innovative technologies are included with a focus on those that are applicable to SIDS, but not being used to the extent they should because they are poorly known to the public, policy-makers, and funding agencies. The Editor in Chief, Dr. Thomas Goreau has published around 200 scientific papers and books on marine ecosystem restoration, soil fertility restoration, carbon sequestration, and reversing CO2 increase, among many other topics. Dr. Goreau was spokesperson for NGOs on Ocean Issues at UNSIDS in Mauritius, and at UNCED in Johannesburg. An Indonesian group he founded, Yayasan Karang Lestari, received the 2012 UN Equator Award for Community-Based Development and the Special UNDP Award for Oceans and Coastal Management at UNCED in Rio de Janeiro. He was formerly Senior Scientific Affairs Officer for climate change and biodiversity at the United Nations Centre for Science and Technology for Development, where he contributed to making the initial draft of the UNFCCC more scientifically-sound. 4 of the 6 Editors are from Jamaica, and one is from Singapore, and all have vast international experience.
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
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Dr. Thomas J. Goreau, Coordinator