XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

  Introduction to SDG As we all know, our oceans are threatened by marine pollution, nutrient pollution, climate change, and resource depletion, now more than ever, all of which are primarily a result of human actions. Further, these threats pressurize our environmental systems, such as our biodiversity, and present us with global socio-economic problems, endangering our health and safety in the process (1) . Another thing that should be considered is that more than 3 billion people are dependent on marine resources that provide them their livelihoods, but today, about 30% of the world's fish stocks are being overexploited, making them incapable of producing sustainable yields. The oceans also provide us with clean, breathable air by absorbing 30% of us' carbon dioxide, but the increasing acidification has even put this in danger (2) . Here our Sustainable Development Goal 14 comes in. This SDG aims at conserving and sustainably using the oceans, sea, and marine resources f...