Taskforce on Ocean Governance

Sustainable Development Goals

Continuing the legacy of the Millennium Development Goals, the international community set forth a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the Rio+20 meeting in 2012. This cluster will bring together scholars to study how states are implementing SDG14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources and will develop policy tools to help states meet this goal. Of course, there are many synergies between the other SDGs and oceans governance that may be of interest to cluster members. This includes more obvious overlaps between SDG13: Climate Action and our own cluster on Climate Change, but it also extends to important linkages between things like SDG1: No Poverty and Coastal Communities, SDG4: Quality Education and Science, Risk, and Uncertainty, or SDG8: Economic Growth and the Blue Economy.  We are excited about this potential for cross-fertilization across ESG-Oceans clusters.

If you’d like to join the cluster, please click here to become a member. This will allow you to post information on the page and give you the opportunity to receive information and updates via the ESG Oceans Taskforce listserve.

While we do not have funding ourselves, we do hope to foster joint projects via Working Groups, which would bring together cluster members to write grant proposals, put together collected volumes/special issues, or develop webinars, workshops, syllabi, or similar products. All projects should focus on the cluster topic and fit within the ESG Science Plan (http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/research-agenda/). Working group members should come from more than one institution and should have sufficient expertise to accomplish project goals. Forming a working group can help you to expand your professional network. It will also provide mentoring from the cluster leaders and access to logistical support like web-conferencing from ESG headquarters. To submit a Working Group proposal, please fill out this form and send it to the cluster leader(s) listed below. If you’d like to propose a Working Group that fits in more than one cluster, please send it to the leaders of each cluster in a single e-mail. Scroll down for descriptions of active Working Groups.

Cluster Leaders:

Leopoldo Caveleri Gehardinger
Oceanographic Institute (IOUSP), Brazil

Gustavo Sosa-Nunez
Instituto Mora, Mexico
gsosa@mora.edu.mx

 

Active Working Groups: