30X30 POLICY PRIORITIES
30×30 is a global target to protect and conserve at least 30% of the world’s land, freshwater and ocean by 2030, adopted under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in 2022.
The science is clear: effective marine protection is vital for long-term economic, social and planetary wellbeing. Communities around the world and the future of our planet depend on the recovery and health of the ocean.
Policy PRIORITIES
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Include ambitious and effective marine biodiversity conservation targets and actions within their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) to help meet the global 30×30 marine goal.
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Urgently increase the scale and pace of establishing new marine protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), prioritizing areas of high ecological integrity, to achieve 30×30 in the ocean, in concert with initiatives led by Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
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Commit to ratify the High Seas Treaty by June 2025, and to accelerate progress to designate and implement all high seas MPA priority sites by 2030, including existing proposals ready to be adopted under other regional treaties.
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Improve the effective management of new and existing protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, ensuring harmful and destructive activities like bottom trawling are excluded, both in national waters and the high seas.
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Ensure that sufficient and durable financing for marine protection and conservation is included by all donor countries, multilateral institutions, and other financial partners when fulfilling obligations towards annually contributing $20B by 2025 and $30B by 2035, mobilizing $200B annually by 2030, and ensuring direct access to inclusive financing for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.