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Goal 14: Life Below Water. The world’s oceans – their temperature, chemistry, currents and life – drive global systems that make the Earth habitable for humankind. How we manage this vital resource is essential for humanity as a whole, and to counterbalance the effects of climate change.

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Sustainable Development Goals / Life below Water. Sustainable Development Goal 14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources. The UN explains: "Our oceans — their temperature, circulation, chemistry, and ecosystems — play a fundamental role in making Earth habitable.

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Goal 14: Life Below Water. The world’s oceans – their temperature, chemistry, currents and life – drive global systems that make the Earth habitable for humankind. How we manage this vital resource is essential for humanity as a whole, and to counterbalance the effects of climate change.

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Goal 14: Life Below Water. The world’s oceans – their temperature, chemistry, currents and life – drive global systems that make the Earth habitable for humankind. How we manage this vital resource is essential for humanity as a whole, and to counter balance the effects of climate change.

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However, given the importance of oceans and marine resources, measuring the shared blueprint for life below water is a challenge in the Asia-Pacific region. There are only sufficient data to measure progress in Asia and the Pacific for one of the ten globally agreed indicators for Goal 14. Find out more on the Asia Pacific SDG Gateway.

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Pedagogical Resources. Life Below Water: Why It Matters- Technical Note presenting SDG 14, what the goal is, what the problem is, what would it cost to correct it and what can we do.; The Youth Guide To The Ocean- This Youth Guide to the Ocean illustrates many of the wonders of the ocean, what it does for us and what we are doing to it.It also describes what is being done at the national and ...

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Goal 14: Life Below Water. Join the conversation #Data4SDGs info@data4sdgs.org We need to make sure that overfishing, climate change, and pollution are not depleting the ocean of its fish by collecting better data and monitoring our oceans.

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7 March 2019: World Wildlife Day 2019 was observed around the globe on 3 March under the theme, ‘Life Below Water: For People and Planet,’ to raise awareness about the diversity of marine life and its importance to sustainable development. This is the first time that World Wildlife Day has focused on marine life, highlighting the need for ...

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British poet W. H. Auden once noted, “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” Yet while we all know water is crucial for life, we trash it anyway. Some 80 percent of the ...

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The UN explains: Forests cover 30 per cent of the Earth’s surface and in addition to providing food security and shelter, forests are key to combating climate change, protecting biodiversity and the homes of the indigenous population. Thirteen million hectares of forests are being lost every year while the persistent degradation of drylands has led to the desertification of 3.6 billion hectares.