{"id":79344,"date":"2018-06-07T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T01:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-decline-of-our-oceans-is-accelerating-but-its-not-too-late-to-stop-it"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:12:30","slug":"the-decline-of-our-oceans-is-accelerating-but-its-not-too-late-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-decline-of-our-oceans-is-accelerating-but-its-not-too-late-to-stop-it","title":{"rendered":"The decline of our oceans is accelerating, but it\u2019s not too late to stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-decline-of-our-oceans-is-accelerating-but-its-not-too-late-to-stop-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We shouldn\u2019t underestimate the powerful attraction of a \u2018sustainable blue economy\u2019, which \u2013 I firmly believe \u2013 will feed and support the lives of our children and those who come after them. Getting it right \u2013 whether through aquaculture, offshore energy, green shipping or ecotourism \u2013 is vital not just for SDG14, but for the future of the global commons, and for humankind itself. To do this we must move with purposeful steps. Here are five that could be taken immediately.<\/p>\n<p><b>Curtail subsidies<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Let us stop throwing good money after bad, and resolve to prohibit subsidies that support harmful and illegal fishing. A critical opportunity to eliminate them is looming at the 2019 ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation. It must not be missed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/05\/five-steps-to-save-our-oceans\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/05\/five-steps-to-save-our-oceans<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We shouldn\u2019t underestimate the powerful attraction of a \u2018sustainable blue economy\u2019, which \u2013 I firmly believe \u2013 will feed and support the lives of our children and those who come after them. Getting it right \u2013 whether through aquaculture, offshore energy, green shipping or ecotourism \u2013 is vital not just for SDG14, but for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79533,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79344\/revisions\/79533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}