UN SDGIO

In order to address the UN sustainable development goals, the united nations sustainable development goals interface ontology SDGIO was developed to represent the various meanings and usages of this and similar terms, either by creating new content or coordinating content from existing ontologies.

A part of the united nations environment program the Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology (SDGIO):Progress and peer review

More details Mark Jensen's abstract talk and from AIMS blog post

UN publication on TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD: THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT also here

UN SDG 14 life below water has the following targets:

14.1

By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution

I will work to address both these issues by creating the semantic framework for the AWI Marine Litter data, along with the AWI Inorganic nutrients in seawater, from which I will work link the nitrogen phosphorus data to the concept of those cycle being out of balance as doccumented in the Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity paper.

14.2

By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans

Possibly I can tangentially address this with my work on plankton ecology semantics.

14.3

Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels

If relevant I will try to encode some terms relevant to ocean acidification into ENVO.

14.4

By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics

Perhaps along with the PCO additions to be made in the plankton ecology work, I could also encode some basic ecological population dynamics like growth and collapse, which would aid to ontologize overfishing and fish stock collapse.

14.5

By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information

Perhaps we could expand on the protected area class encode some subclasses such as marine protected area, coastal marine protected area etc.

14.6

By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation

If time allows encode the idea of subsidy or agricultural subsidy perhaps into AGRO? Could a future governance ontology be created to house such terms? That would possibly be useful to house some of the UN SDGIO Terms for addition based on high priority indicators

14.7

By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism

14.a

Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries

Which I will work to address.

14.b

Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets

which I would like to address in the future by providing semantics for a project such as Catalysing managment of marine resources through a fishers's electronic registry and licensing system also in video with my contact Andrés Alegría [email protected] from the ZMT.

14.c

Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of The Future We Want