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ClearEditorial: Sustainable Development Goal 14 - Life Below Water: Towards a Sustainable Ocean
This editorial introduces a research collection focused on UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), framing ocean science priorities for the UN Decade of Ocean Science (2021-2030) and calling for integrated research addressing plastic pollution, climate change, and ecosystem management.
Objectif de développement durable n°14 sur l’océan: Quelques éclairages sur les subventions à la pêche, le bruit et les plastiques
This report analyzes the progress and challenges associated with Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), focusing on ocean-related targets including combating plastic pollution and harmful fisheries subsidies. It provides policy analysis of ocean governance mechanisms relevant to addressing the marine plastic pollution crisis.
Objetivo De Desenvolvimento Sustentável Número 14
This Portuguese-language Brazilian legal study examines UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), focusing on target 14.1 which addresses ocean pollution from plastic waste and microplastics. The review highlights the gap between international policy commitments to ocean plastic reduction and effective enforcement mechanisms in Brazilian law.
TD 2881 - A Organização das Nações Unidas e o objetivo de desenvolvimento sustentável 14 : desafios para o Brasil na década do oceano
This Brazilian paper examines challenges for Brazil in achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (life below water) during the Ocean Decade. Ocean microplastic pollution is a central challenge for SDG 14, and Brazil as a major coastal nation faces significant responsibilities in addressing plastic waste entering the South Atlantic.
A Implementação De Ações Para a Promoção Da Cultura Oceânica E Do Ods 14 Na Costa Nordeste Do Estado Do Pará Frente À Década Do Oceano
This Brazilian paper describes actions taken to promote ocean culture and support UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (life below water) along the northeastern coast of Para state, during the UN Ocean Decade. Community initiatives addressed coastal erosion, overfishing, and mangrove depletion affecting the region's biodiversity. Protecting coastal ecosystems from plastic pollution is a central component of such ocean conservation programs.
Ocean science, data, and services for the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
This review examined how ocean science, data, and services can support achievement of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 14 on life below water and its connections to the remaining 16 SDGs. The authors argue that the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is essential for achieving sustainable ocean stewardship.
Sustainable Development Goal 14 in the Western Indian Ocean: a socio-ecological approach to understanding progress
This study evaluates progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 14 (life below water) in the Western Indian Ocean region, finding that while SDG 14 has influenced regional policy, current monitoring tools are insufficient to fully capture progress at the national level.
Sustainable Development Goals and microplastics in seafood: a theoretical-reflective study
This theoretical review examined the relationship between microplastic contamination of seafood and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, arguing that strengthening water pollution policies and educating health professionals about microplastic risks are necessary to achieve SDG targets.
Oceanic pollution; A threat to life
This brief overview discusses multiple forms of ocean pollution, including plastic debris, and their threats to marine ecosystems. The author calls for urgent global action to prevent further degradation of ocean health.
Exploring how citizen science projects measuring beach plastic debris can support UN Sustainable Development Goals
This study examines how citizen science beach plastic debris monitoring projects could help countries report progress on UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), identifying key opportunities and challenges in translating volunteer-collected data into official SDG indicators.
Challenges with microplastic pollution in the regime of UN sustainable development goals
Researchers reviewed the global challenge of microplastic pollution through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting how microplastics enter aquatic, terrestrial, and human health systems and how current international frameworks fall short of managing them. The review emphasizes that microplastics can carry and concentrate harmful chemicals like persistent organic pollutants, amplifying their risks throughout the food chain.
Emerging threat of microplastics across environmental matrices encompassing sources ecotoxicological effects and management strategies within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This review synthesizes current knowledge on microplastic sources, environmental distribution, and ecotoxicological impacts across various environmental matrices, framed within the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The study highlights how microplastics accumulate across ecosystems and affect organisms at all trophic levels through ingestion and chemical exposure, while identifying management strategies aligned with global sustainability targets.
Global Changes, Anthropogenic Impacts and the Future of the Oceans
This review covers multiple human-caused threats to ocean health, including pollution by mercury, lead, and plastics, as well as ocean acidification and deoxygenation. The discussion of plastic pollution highlights how microplastics compound other ongoing threats to marine ecosystems.
Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
This report from the Measuring Progress series examines how water-related ecosystems are performing against the Sustainable Development Goals, exploring connections between water ecosystem health and broader sustainable development outcomes. Progress is uneven globally, with many water ecosystems under increasing pressure from pollution and climate change. Microplastic contamination of freshwater ecosystems is part of this wider water quality challenge.
Micro Plastic Pollution in South Asia: The Impact of Plastic Pollution over the Unsustainable Development Goals
This review examines microplastic pollution across South Asian countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, finding that rapid urbanization and poor plastic waste management are driving widespread contamination of freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems, with significant implications for sustainable development goals.
Implementation of SDG 14 and Blue Economy Policies in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Policy Review
This policy review examines how seven Southeast Asian nations are implementing the UN's ocean sustainability goal (SDG 14) and blue economy frameworks, covering issues like marine protected areas, fishing practices, and waste management. While plastic waste and marine litter enter the discussion in the context of ocean health, the paper is primarily a comparative policy analysis rather than a microplastics research study. It is tangentially relevant as a governance backdrop for reducing plastic pollution at sea.
Exploring Sustainable Development Goal Research Trajectories in Small Island Developing States
This study maps research trends in small island developing states and their alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, finding that environmental sustainability and ocean health receive the most attention. While not focused specifically on microplastics, it highlights that small island nations face outsized environmental pressures including marine pollution that can affect local food systems and human health.
SDG 14 – Exploiting and Managing the Alien and Unseen World below Water
This review traces humanity's historical exploitation of and impact on marine ecosystems from the Paleolithic to the present, arguing that because most marine life is invisible to us, societies have consistently responded to environmental damage only after harm became undeniable, making proactive ocean management especially difficult.
Sustainability of lakes and reservoirs in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals
This review paper links the sustainability of lakes and reservoirs to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, discussing threats from climate change, biological invasions, and pollution. Microplastics are mentioned among the emerging pollutants threatening freshwater ecosystem sustainability.
Global plastic pollution, sustainable development, and plastic justice
This review examines how plastic pollution, including microplastics, undermines sustainable development goals and disproportionately affects lower-income nations that lack waste management infrastructure. The authors propose a "plastic justice" framework to address the human rights dimensions of plastic pollution, which poses health risks to communities through contaminated water, food, and air.
Kunststoffabfälle im Kontext der SDGs
This German-language review examines plastic waste challenges in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, analyzing how current plastic production and disposal practices conflict with SDG targets for clean water, responsible consumption, and climate action.
Plastics: Sustainable Development Goals and Circular Solutions
This review examines the dual role of plastics in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, finding that while plastics contribute positively to at least 15 SDGs, the pollution they cause, particularly marine pollution, outweighs those benefits overall. The study highlights the circular economy, including strategies like reduction, recycling, and service life extension, as a key approach to resolving the socio-environmental problems caused by plastic waste.
Microplastic pollution in the marine environment: Sources, impacts, and degradation.
This review summarizes existing research on microplastic pollution in the ocean, covering sources, effects on marine life, and degradation. Microplastics harm marine organisms across the food chain, from plankton to fish, affecting their growth, reproduction, immune systems, and behavior. Since humans consume many of these marine species, the widespread contamination raises concerns about microplastic exposure through seafood.
A Comprehensive Review of Climatic Threats and Adaptation of Marine Biodiversity
This comprehensive review examines how climate change threatens marine biodiversity through rising ocean temperatures, acidification, and habitat loss. Among the many environmental stressors discussed, microplastic pollution is highlighted as an additional threat that compounds the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. The paper evaluates adaptation strategies like marine protected areas and habitat restoration that could help protect the ocean ecosystems humans depend on for food.