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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

WATO; Creating content through Gaming, Music and Technology for Ocean Sustainability.

    Description
    Description
    We Are The Oceans (WATO) is educating through music, gaming and technology, accessing millennials on their terms, to tackle ocean sustainability issues. We aim to inspire people and brands to make more sustainable lifestyle decisions to help the oceans and environment. Through our awareness tools and partnerships we are able to support ocean projects on the ground.
    Expected Impact

    To create and implement our awareness programmes WATO's dedicated team is working within an array of partners in the music, gaming, tech spaces. We are NOT asking our audience for monetary contributions, but to simply engage with our ocean content, take action and make lifestyle changes. As a progressive organization we are using an array of techniques at our disposal and innovating on the conventional philanthropic roots to market, by bringing ocean education to audiences on their terms. By collaborating with top trending influencers across key sectors including music, entertainment and lifestyle to create and showcase ocean content we are allowing an online community of conscience to come together. Individually and on the WATO platform, we are enabling influencers to inspire their own audiences to share ocean ideals and the desire to build a better future for people and planet.

    Governed

    WATO is governed in a traditional non-profit manner - trustees, board.

    Partners
    UNOPS
    Love Nature
    Ocean Unite
    The Voice
    Joss Stone
    Rovio
    Vans Warped Tour
    Oceanic Global
    Sustainable Oceans Alliance

    Goal 14

    Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

    Goal 14

    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

    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
    14.7 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
    Reach 1 billion people with WATO ocean awareness and educational content
    Support specific communities of Small Island developing States and least developed countries with mitigating the effects of ocean deterioration
    Staff / Technical expertise
    Executive music directors, artists and gaming specialists are incorporating ocean sustainable messages into their fields
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    This initiative does not yet fulfil the SMART criteria.
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    Timeline
    01 April 2017 (start date)
    01 December 2020 (date of completion)
    Entity
    We Are The Oceans (WATO)
    SDGs
    Geographical coverage
    London, United Kingdom
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    Contact Information

    Daisy Kendrick, Co-Founder