End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Reduce inequality within and among countries

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

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

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Proportion of national exclusive economic zones managed using ecosystem-based approaches

Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations

Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels

Coverage of protected areas in relation to marine areas

South African Marine Protected Areas (MPA) as a percentage of total Exclusive Economic Zone

Proportion of marine and coastal ecosystem types that are well-represented in protected areas

Progress by countries in the degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries

Proportion of total research budget allocated to research in the field of marine technology

Marine sciences funding as a proportion of total government funding and GERD

Progress by countries in the degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small-scale fisheries

South Africa is 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 (YES=1; NO=0)

End Subsidies Contributing to Overfishing

Encourage Sustainable Use of Marine Resources

Increase Scientific Knowledge, Research and Technology for Ocean Health

Implement and Enforce International Sea Law

SDG

Goal 14 Life below water

Targets

Target 14.1

Target 14.2

Target 14.3

Target 14.4

Target 14.5

Target 14.6

Target 14.7

Target 14.A

Target 14.B

Target 14.C

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