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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2022
This chapter explores the complex and challenging relationship between Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, Life below Water, and the relevant international legal frameworks. It shows that the effective implementation of SDG 14 may be compromised by the structural limitations of international law in general as well as by the idiosyncrasies of the law of the sea. Yet the SDG 14 targets may serve to strengthen existing regimes, operate as interstitial norms connecting distinct regimes, or identify gaps in ocean governance and inspire new regulation. However, where the SDG 14 target is expressed in weaker or more general terms than existing obligations or goals, SDG 14 may undermine existing instruments. In the absence of an overarching ‘Ocean Council’, the regime complex that is in place provides as many opportunities for duplication of, or contradictory, efforts as it does for the development of mutually supportive measures. It is also posited that SDG 14 fails to provide the necessary conceptual framework for the law of the sea in the Anthropocene.
SDG 14, law of the sea, ocean governance, regime complex, marine resources
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