GCRF One Ocean Hub

超过70%的地球表面是海洋。作为全球人口，我们完全依赖于健康的海洋：它有助于淡水的更新；它吸收了全球超过四分之一的二氧化碳，产生了我们呼吸的一半氧气。海洋有可能对可持续发展作出重大贡献。许多发展中国家已经依靠海洋资源获得食物、工作和生计。然而，我们正在面临一场海洋健康危机：海洋资源的过度开发、海洋塑料和污染以及气候变化等累积压力，加上多种相互竞争的用途，正在将海洋生态系统推向一个临界点。迫切需要更加综合的海洋治理，以确保在海洋保护和可持续利用之间取得更大的平衡（可持续发展目标14），并实现海洋在促进减贫、人类健康、健康的陆地生态系统、减缓和适应气候变化、公平经济增长和体面就业方面的潜力。“我们是大海……我们必须意识到这个古老的真理……是时候为我们自己创造东西了，是时候为我们的祖先创造既定的卓越标准了。“正是本着这种精神，一个海洋中心将改变我们对海洋面临的紧迫挑战的反应。该中心将把从海洋中学习的知识，以及依赖海洋的人民的传统知识，与卓越的科学、创新的法律途径和艺术方法结合起来。我们的目标是弥合从地方到国际各个层面的法律、科学和政策脱节。我们的目标是在蓝色经济中增强弱势社区、妇女和青年的权能，推动采取必要的包容和综合治理办法，确保海洋健康、社区和经济繁荣。该中心将专门解决南非、纳米比亚、加纳、斐济和所罗门群岛在实现海洋经济、社会文化和环境效益方面的挑战。它旨在通过提供新的科学数据和工具，让社会中不同部门和群体，特别是弱势社区、妇女和青年，参与识别机会、风险和权衡，从而支持这些国家发展可持续和公平的蓝色经济的努力：1)预防和减轻与海洋有关的负面发展影响，2)参与传统和新兴的海洋活动，3)预测海洋保护的社会经济效益。该中心率先将法律与艺术、政策、信息学、教育、历史、人类学和哲学结合起来，就环境、人权、科技、贸易和投资等领域的连贯和灵活、扶贫和性别敏感、不受气候影响和透明的法律和政策提供有针对性的建议。该中心将进一步整合生物学、物理学、化学、海洋学、生态学、数学、社会环境科学和法律，以促进对面临气候变化影响的可持续渔业的理解，以及社会经济和文化方面的考虑。该中心还将结合生物学、生态学、地质学、社会环境科学和法律，增进对深海矿物、生物和淡水资源的保护和开采方案的了解。通过对艺术的创新运用，该中心将超越传统的政策、法律界限，以及从当地社区到国际组织的海洋利益相关者之间的界限，尊重并有效地将当地社区的传统知识纳入国家和地方层面的蓝色经济决策中。该中心将制定综合治理框架，加强社区内部的能力，推动采用创新方法，为南非、纳米比亚、加纳、斐济和所罗门群岛实现公平和可持续的蓝色经济

Over 70% of the earth's surface is ocean. As a global population, we are entirely reliant upon a healthy ocean: it contributes to the renewal of freshwater; it absorbs over a quarter of global carbon dioxide, and it produces half the oxygen we breathe. The ocean has the potential to make significant contributions to sustainable development. Many developing countries already depend on their ocean resources for food, work and livelihoods. Yet we are reaching an ocean health crisis: cumulative pressures such as over-exploitation of its resources, ocean plastics and pollution and climate change, all compounded by multiple competing uses, are pushing the ocean ecosystem to a tipping point. There is an urgent need for more integrated ocean governance, to ensure greater balance between ocean conservation and sustainable use (Sustainable Development Goal 14) and realise the ocean's potential to contribute to poverty reduction, human health, healthy ecosystems on land, climate change mitigation and adaptation, equitable economic growth and decent employment."We are the sea...we must wake up to this ancient truth...It is time to create things for ourselves, to create established standards of excellence that match those of our ancestors."It is with this spirit that the ONE OCEAN Hub will transform our response to the urgent challenges facing our ocean. The Hub will weave learning from the ocean, and traditional knowledge of the peoples who rely upon it, with scientific excellence, innovative legal approaches and artistic methods. Our aim is to bridge the disconnections in law, science and policy across all levels from the local to the international. We aim to empower vulnerable communities, woman and youth in the blue economy and catalyse the inclusive and integrated governance approaches required to ensure a healthy ocean and flourishing communities and economies. The Hub will specifically address the challenges of South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Fiji and Solomon Islands in realising the economic, socio-cultural and environmental benefits from the ocean. It aims to support these countries' efforts towards developing a sustainable and fair blue economy by providing new scientific data and tools to engage different sectors and groups within society, particularly vulnerable communities, woman and youth, in identifying opportunities, risks and trade-offs to: i) prevent and mitigate negative development impacts connected to the ocean, ii) participate in traditional and emerging ocean activities, and iii) predict the socioeconomic benefits of ocean conservation. The Hub pioneers integrating law and arts, policy, informatics, education, history, anthropology, and philosophy to provide targeted advice on coherent and flexible, pro-poor and gender- sensitive, climate-proofed and transparent laws and policies across the areas of environmental, human rights, science and technology, trade and investment. The Hub will further integrate biology, physics, chemistry, oceanography, ecology, mathematics, socio-environmental sciences and law to advance understanding of sustainable fisheries in the face of climate change impacts, as well as socio-economic and cultural considerations. The Hub will also increase understanding of conservation and extraction options for deep-sea mineral, biological and freshwater resources, integrating biology, ecology, geology, socio-environmental sciences and law. Through innovative use of arts the hub will transcend traditional boundaries in policy, law, and between ocean stakeholders from local communties to international organisatons, to respectfully and effectively include local communities' traditional knowledge in decision-making at the national and local level on the blue economy. The Hub will develop the integrated governance frameworks and strengthen the capacity within commnities to drive innovative approaches to a fair and sustainable blue economy for South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Fiji and Solomon Islands