SDG 14: Life Below Water

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Facts/Status quo (directly quoted from https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/oceans/)
- The Ocean is intrinsic to our life on earth. Covering three-quarters of the Earth’s surface, contain 97 percent of the Earth’s water, and represent 99 percent of the living space on the planet by volume.
- The ocean is our planet’s life support and regulate the global climate system. It is the world’s largest ecosystem, home to nearly a million known species and containing vast untapped potential for scientific discovery.
- ocean absorbs around 23 per cent of annual CO2 emissions generated by human activity
- Ocean heat is at record levels, causing widespread marine heatwaves. A warmer ocean means:
- sea level rise, shrinking polar ice caps, marine heat waves, extreme weather events, coastal flooding and erosion, toxic algae, ocean acidification
- Every year, an estimated 5 to 12 million metric tonnes of plastic enters the ocean
- About 80% of all tourism takes place in coastal areas
Collection of links
Official page SDG 14:Life Below Water
Marine Pollution
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
- Film “Flaschenpost aus Dresden”, Regie Steffen Krones, (Müll wandert über Flüsse in die Meere – Selbstversuch)
Link zum Film: https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/mdr-wissen/flaschenpost-aus-dresden-wie-sich-unser-muell-ueber-die-elbe-verbreitet/mdr/Y3JpZDovL21kci5kZS9iZWl0cmFnL2Ntcy9mM2U2ZTQ2MC04ZDBiLTQxZGQtODQwOC1lMTNlY2Y2MjY4YjU
Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
Deep sea mining
- https://www.bund.net/meere/belastungen/tiefseebergbau/
- https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/23164/5-reasons-to-stop-deep-sea-mining/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWvCtF1itQM&t=1s
Connections between PNG and Hamburg
- https://www.friedenskooperative.de/friedensforum/artikel/der-kurze-kupfer-draht-neuguinea-hamburg
- Film “Das Kolonialinstitut”, Regie Daniel Kulle (kritischer Blick auf die Geschichte der Universität Hamburg),
Link zum Trailer: https://www.danielkulle.de/regie/daskolonialinstitut/
Colonial History Hamburg
- App “Colonial Sites” Hamburg: https://kolonialismus.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/app-koloniale-orte-ios-android/