To Achieve a Sustainable Blue Future, Progress Assessments Must Include Interdependencies between the Sustainable Development Goals

Nash, Kirsty L.; Blythe, Jessica; Cvitanovic, Christopher; Fulton, Elizabeth A.; Halpern, Benjamin S.; Milner‐Gulland, E.J.; Addison, Prue; Pecl, Gretta T.; Watson, Reg; Blanchard, Julia L.

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.01.008

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“…For example, loss of access for small-scale fisheries, which are by far the ocean’s largest employers ( 9 ), has threatened human rights ( 27 ) and exacerbated inequity ( 10 ). Similarly, because of the interdependent nature of the SDGs, a loss of access to ocean benefits and resources would also compromise progress toward other goals such as ending poverty (SDG 1) and hunger (SDG 2) ( 28 ).…”

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The Ocean 100: Transnational corporations in the ocean economy

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The ocean economy is growing as commercial use of the ocean accelerates, while progress toward achieving international goals for ocean conservation and sustainability is lagging. In this context, the private sector is increasingly recognized as having the capacity to hamper efforts to achieve aspirations of sustainable ocean-based development or alternatively to bend current trajectories of ocean use by taking on the mantle of corporate biosphere stewardship. Here, we identify levels of industry concentration to assess where this capacity rests. We show that the 10 largest companies in eight core ocean economy industries generate, on average, 45% of each industry’s total revenues. Aggregating across all eight industries, the 100 largest corporations (the “Ocean 100”) account for 60% of total revenues. This level of concentration in the ocean economy presents both risks and opportunities for ensuring sustainability and equity of global ocean use.

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The Ocean 100: Transnational corporations in the ocean economy

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“…Frameworks and methods are available for exploring interactions between the SDGs, which have already been applied to other complex socio-ecological systems (e.g. Nash et al, 2020;Nilsson, Griggs, & Visbeck, 2016), and could easily be applied to wildlife trade decision-making.…”

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“…For example, integrated frameworks have previously been used for risk management in human and animal health (Beauvais et al, 2018;Narrod et al, 2012), wildlife policy and management (Booth et al, 2020;Booy et al, 2017) and interfaces between the two (Coker et al, 2011). Existing frameworks are also available for mapping interactions between SDGs, which are intuitive, broadly replicable and could be easily adapted to a wildlife trade context (Nash et al, 2020;Nilsson et al, 2018Nilsson et al, , 2016. For example, Nilsson et al (2016) offer a simple semi-quantitative scale for exploring the influence of one SDG on another, while Nash et al (2020) suggest extensions to the current SDG assessment framework to better acknowledge interactions between SDGs for planet, prosperity and people.…”

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“…Existing frameworks are also available for mapping interactions between SDGs, which are intuitive, broadly replicable and could be easily adapted to a wildlife trade context (Nash et al, 2020;Nilsson et al, 2018Nilsson et al, , 2016. For example, Nilsson et al (2016) offer a simple semi-quantitative scale for exploring the influence of one SDG on another, while Nash et al (2020) suggest extensions to the current SDG assessment framework to better acknowledge interactions between SDGs for planet, prosperity and people. Importantly, integrated frameworks are flexible and can be used iteratively as part of participatory and adaptive processes, allowing incorporation of diverse values and uncertainty.…”

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“Saving lives, protecting livelihoods, and safeguarding nature”: risk-based wildlife trade policy for sustainable development outcomes post-COVID-19

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused huge loss of life, and immense social and economic costs throughout the world. Policy responses must minimise the risk of future zoonotic pandemics while simultaneously securing livelihoods and protecting nature, all of which are fundamental to delivering the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Wildlife trade has become the epicentre of debates on COVID-19 and potential policy responses, with calls from some conservation and animal welfare organisations for blanket bans on wildlife trade. Here we describe how wildlife trade influences people and nature in diverse ways (both positive and negative), with synergies and trade-offs within and between the SDGs. We also discuss why there is a need for a more holistic and evidence-based approach, which goes beyond the narrow focus of current discourse. We offer a simple integrated framework for assessing the public health risks of different forms of wildlife trade, and for evaluating them against other dimensions of the SDGs. We illustrate the flexibility of the framework by applying it to worked examples for different species and contexts. Our results demonstrate how the framework can guide evidence-based, participatory decision-making on wildlife trade, which minimises public health risks and secures other benefits to people and nature. We encourage decision-makers to adopt a holistic approach to inform national and local policy responses to pandemic risks posed by wildlife trade. Finally, we recommend that broader issues, such as land-use and climate change (and how wildlife trade regulations may alleviate or exacerbate these issues) are also considered as part of efforts to reduce future zoonosis emergence.

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“…Instead, the unique challenges presented by the Anthropocene to marine socio-ecological systems necessitate new approaches of knowledge production that are capable of integrating scientific disciplines to develop solutions for complex challenges that are desirable, equitable, and viable (Castree et al, 2014;Bai et al, 2016;Bennett et al, 2019a,b;Nash et al, 2020). Increasing support for interdisciplinary research is reflected by a growing number of local to global programs that seek to address global sustainability challenges through interdisciplinary research (Van Noorden, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%