Five priorities for a sustainable ocean economy

Lubchenco, Jane; Haugan, Peter M.; Pangestu, Mari

doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03303-3

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“…A more proactive approach might seem to be a clearer indicator of stewardship, but we note in this manuscript that movement toward stewardship has been dependent on a complex interplay of different actors, and there is limited capacity for NGO campaigns, market mechanisms or voluntary environmental programs to enable systemic change in isolation, and even leadership by companies can falter in the absence of clear political leadership and associated actions. The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Box 5) represents the most recent initiative by governments to institutionalize ocean stewardship, including with a commitment by the participating 14 heads of state to sustainable manage their respective exclusive economic zones by 2025, announced in December of 2020 (Lubchenco et al, 2020). Action by these countries could provide a powerful and paradigmatic counterexample to recent disappointments such as the global community's failure to achieve any of the 20 Aichi Targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity by 2020 (Greenfield, 2020).…”

Section: Toward Ocean Stewardshipmentioning

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Evolving Perspectives of Stewardship in the Seafood Industry

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Humanity has never benefited more from the ocean as a source of food, livelihoods, and well-being, yet on a global scale this has been accompanied by trajectories of degradation and persistent inequity. Awareness of this has spurred policymakers to develop an expanding network of ocean governance instruments, catalyzed civil society pressure on the public and private sector, and motivated engagement by the general public as consumers and constituents. Among local communities, diverse examples of stewardship have rested on the foundation of care, knowledge and agency. But does an analog for stewardship exist in the context of globally active multinational corporations? Here, we consider the seafood industry and its efforts to navigate this new reality through private governance. We examine paradigmatic events in the history of the sustainable seafood movement, from seafood boycotts in the 1970s through to the emergence of certification measures, benchmarks, and diverse voluntary environmental programs. We note four dimensions of stewardship in which efforts by actors within the seafood industry have aligned with theoretical concepts of stewardship, which we describe as (1) moving beyond compliance, (2) taking a systems perspective, (3) living with uncertainty, and (4) understanding humans as embedded elements of the biosphere. In conclusion, we identify emerging stewardship challenges for the seafood industry and suggest the urgent need to embrace a broader notion of ocean stewardship that extends beyond seafood.

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“…Here, I synthesize and structure into seven broad domains of action (Table 1; Figure 1) the recommendations from three recent collective efforts aimed at promoting a scientifically sound, just, and holistic governance for sustainable use of the Ocean (Bennett et al, 2021;Claudet et al, 2020;Lubchenco et al, 2020). In doing so, I hope to convey the message to policy makers, the private sectors, and civil society at large, that the evidence and knowledge base to transform our Ocean into a paragon of sustainability is already there.…”

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The seven domains of action for a sustainable ocean

Claudet

2021

Cell

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The Ocean strongly contributes to our well-being but is severely impacted by human activities. Here, I propose seven domains of action to structure our collective efforts toward a scientifically sound, just, and holistic governance of a sustainable Ocean. Main text:The Ocean We live on one Planet, which hosts one Ocean. The Ocean is unique; it covers 71% of our Planet for more than 95% of its living space, and is distributed in interconnected basins modulated by a range of physical oceanographic processes.

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“…Proactive states have a role to play in leading the way for the international community. The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy provides one promising model, whereby 14 heads of state-a diverse subset of the global community seeking to position themselves as ocean leaders-have taken a step in unison with time-bound commitments to sustainable ocean management (17). The ink is still drying on the commitments made by the High Level Panel, but convincing progress demonstrating the dividends of this approach could bolster broader regional and eventually global coalitions of states committed to comparable efforts.…”

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Transformational opportunities for an equitable ocean commons

Claudet

Amon²,

Blasiak

2021

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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A frontier mentality has been a defining aspect of human history. Often this sentiment is optimistically framed in the language of aspirations and opportunities. But it can also be accompanied by unsavory narratives of over-exploitation, inequity, and conflict (1). If any place on Earth can be considered a final frontier, it is perhaps the ocean's "areas beyond national jurisdiction" (ABNJ), which are both distant (generally starting some 370 km from coastlines) and vast (covering nearly 40% of the planet's surface). It is also the subject of ongoing United Nations negotiations for a treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity found in areas beyond national jurisdiction (typically shortened to BBNJ, https://www.un.org/bbnj/). However, if current trajectories of expansion of human activities in the oceanTo preserve the global ocean commons, we need to explicitly focus not just on scientific questions worthy of investigation but also on building up the capacity of emerging and future researchers. Image credit: Shutterstock/LeQuangNhut.

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Five priorities for a sustainable ocean economy

Abstract: cean ecosystems are under threat. They also hold solutions. Climate change is increasing sea levels and making the ocean warmer, more acidic and depleted in oxygen. A fisher in Mauritius adds bait to a wire fish trap.

Cited by 60 publications

References 15 publications

Evolving Perspectives of Stewardship in the Seafood Industry

Evolving Perspectives of Stewardship in the Seafood Industry

The seven domains of action for a sustainable ocean

Transformational opportunities for an equitable ocean commons

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