Background
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted at the United Nations Summit held in New York in September 2015, contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Among them, SDG14, the “Oceans goal”, aims to “Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. It includes 10 targets relating to marine pollution, protecting marine and coastal ecosystems, minimizing ocean acidification, sustainable management of fisheries and ending harmful fisheries subsidies, conserving costal and marine areas, increasing the economic benefits to SIDs and LDCs, and means of implementation. Many of these targets are related to trade policy making, negotiations and ongoing discussions in the WTO, FAO, UNCTAD, UNDESA and other relevant fora.
Co-organized with: Permanent Missions to the WTO/United Nations of Sweden and Fiji, with the support of the Permanent Mission of Argentina and the United Nations Secretariat (UNCTAD and UNDESA)