Are you familiar with the 17 United Nations Goals?
for Sustainable Development?
They are a set of 17 global goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 to achieve a sustainable future by 2030. They aim to eradicate poverty, ensure health, education and equality, protect the environment, promote economic growth and build partnerships for a more inclusive and balanced world.
The Engaged For Ocean label
meets 9 of these Objectives
Enabling everyone to live in good health and promoting well-being at all ages
3.9 By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and illnesses caused by hazardous chemicals, air, water and soil pollution and contamination.
The Engaged For Ocean® label encourages the management of resources consumed, the filtration of grey water discharges, and the limited use of chemicals. The projects financed by the Engaged For Ocean funds will all have to meet these criteria, and some will be aimed directly at medical research, notably through genetic research on underwater species.
Ensuring access for all to sustainably managed water supply and sanitation services
6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating waste dumping and minimizing emissions of chemicals and hazardous materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and significantly increasing the safe recycling and reuse of water worldwide.
6.4 By 2030, significantly increase the rational use of water resources in all sectors and ensure the sustainability of withdrawals and freshwater supplies in order to address water scarcity and significantly reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity.
6.6 By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
The Engaged For Ocean® label encourages the filtration of wastewater and consumer waste, as well as the capture of rainwater to minimize consumption and runoff pollution. The awarding of certain levels of certification is conditional on these concrete applications. In particular, cleaning up and capturing pollutants in run-off water from rivers and streams is a major challenge.
The projects financed by the Engaged For Ocean funds will all have to meet these criteria, and some will focus directly on water distribution, filtration and reuse.
Promote sustained, shared and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
8.4 Progressively improve the efficiency of global resource use in both consumption and production up to 2030, and ensure that economic growth no longer leads to environmental degradation, as set out in the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries leading the way.
8.9 By 2030, develop and implement policies to develop sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
The Engaged For Ocean® label aims to promote sustainable tourism by encouraging local and responsible commitments directly linked to the resources and use of the Ocean.
At the same time, this approach helps to unite teams around unifying values that carry meaning beyond the professional sphere. The steps required to obtain the label must lead to an more reasoned and sustainable production and consumption.
Building a resilient infrastructure, promoting sustainable industrialization that benefits all, and fostering innovation
9.2 Promote sustainable industrialization that benefits all and, by 2030, significantly increase the contribution of industry to employment and gross domestic product, depending on the national context, and double it in the least developed countries.
9.4 By 2030, modernize infrastructure and adapt industries to make them sustainable, through more rational use of resources and increased use of clean, environmentally-friendly technologies and industrial processes, with each country acting within its means.
The Engaged For Ocean® label recognizes the responsible behavior and environmentally committed policies of ocean-related industries and activities. The sustainability of resources determines the activities that sustain our civilization. The Engaged For Ocean® label is fully in line with this commitment to a sustainable economy through responsible and committed activities and players.
The projects financed by the Engaged For Ocean funds will all have to meet these criteria, and some will be aimed directly at sector innovation in the preservation of marine resources.
Making cities and settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and preserve the world's cultural and natural heritage
11.a Promote positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening development planning at national and regional levels.
The Engaged For Ocean® label plays an active role in raising awareness of good practices and customs concerning the ocean, its attractions and its resources. The majority of Engaged For Ocean® label holders are involved in activities that have a direct relationship with the public, so it's their mission to take part in the effort to change people's habits and expectations. It's from this particularly close and sensitive relationship that the energy and awareness of the importance of preserving our natural heritage and bringing about change in public and private infrastructures emerge.
The projects financed by the Engaged For Ocean funds will all have to meet these criteria, and some will be aimed directly at the transition of urban planning, particularly along the coast.
Establishing sustainable consumption and production patterns
12.2 Achieve sustainable management and rational use of natural resources by 2030
12.4 By 2020, establish environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with internationally agreed guidelines, and significantly reduce their release into the air, water and soil, in order to minimize their negative effects on health and the environment.
12.5 By 2030, significantly reduce waste production through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational ones, to adopt sustainable practices and to include sustainability information in their reporting.
12.7 Promote sustainable procurement practices in line with national policies and priorities
12.8 By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the information and knowledge they need for sustainable development and a lifestyle in harmony with nature.
The Engaged For Ocean® label encourages the sustainable management of stocks and resources in sourcing, sorting and recycling processes. All label holders must commit to selecting business partners with environmental values and commitments.
The transition in modes of consumption and production must be a global movement that integrates both producers and consumers. Through its awareness-raising tools and the commitments of its label holders, Engaged For Ocean is helping to bring about a change in practices and activities.
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its repercussions
13.3 Improve education, awareness and individual and institutional capacities for climate change adaptation, mitigation and impact reduction, and early warning systems
The Engaged For Ocean® label has developed an innovative participatory system where all citizens can inform themselves, discover, learn and report on the proper application of the commitments made by the label holders.
This self-responsible approach includes all citizens in the decision-making process and in the verification of its application. By giving citizens a sense of responsibility, they raise their ambitions and become ambassadors for good sustainable practices.
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all types, in particular from land-based activities, including marine litter and nutrient pollution.
14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems, including by enhancing their resilience, in order to avoid the severe consequences of their degradation, and take action to restore them to healthy and productive oceans.
14.3 Minimize ocean acidification and combat its effects, in particular by strengthening scientific cooperation at all levels.
14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate fisheries, eliminate overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices, and implement science-based management plans, with the aim of restoring fish stocks as quickly as possible, at least to levels that can produce the maximum sustainable yield given their biological characteristics.
14.a Deepen scientific knowledge, build research capacity and transfer marine technology, in line with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, with the aim of improving the health of the oceans and enhancing the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing states and least developed countries.
14.c Improve the conservation and more sustainable use of the oceans and their resources in accordance with the provisions of international law, set out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The Future We Want".
The Engaged For Ocean® label focuses on the use and preservation of the ocean in all its forms. It is by working together, balancing the burdens of studying and protecting the marine world between economic, scientific and technical players and citizens, that the solution for a sustainable world can be born.
With the Engaged For Ocean label, we have created a virtuous circular system in which all ocean-related players collaborate to ensure the sustainability of their interdependent activities.
The projects financed by the Engaged For Ocean funds must all meet the criteria of direct or indirect preservation of the Ocean.
Preserve and restore terrestrial ecosystems, ensuring that they are used sustainably, manage forests sustainably, combat desertification, halt and reverse soil degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
15.5 Take urgent and decisive action to reduce the degradation of the natural environment, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect threatened species and prevent their extinction.
15.7 Take urgent measures to halt poaching and trafficking of protected plant and animal species, and tackle the problem from a supply and demand perspective.
15.8 By 2020, take measures to prevent the introduction of invasive alien species, significantly mitigate their impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and control or eradicate priority species.
15.a Mobilize and substantially increase financial resources from all sources to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems and use them sustainably
The Engaged For Ocean® label aims to spread the essential message of dependence on the ocean. Preserving ecosystems and biodiversity on land has consequences at sea, and vice versa. Some tourism and transport activities have the harmful effect of introducing exotic species due to bad practices, and the label takes a stand against this.
This dependence on our world in isolation is still not widespread enough, and the Label Engaged For Ocean wants to encourage its label holders to make systemic commitments that will enable our world to survive and evolve towards a future full of hope.