In June 5–9, 2017, during the United Nations (UN) Ocean Conference, 143 governments, signatory parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) declared their commitment and strategies to reach several objectives of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, which stands to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. In a relatively short time frame, the parties have committed to develop marine spatial planning, enforce sustainable management and protection of marine ecosystems, conserve at least 10% of the world's marine habitats, end overfishing, provide access for small-scale fishers, reduce marine pollution and ocean acidification, among others ambitious goals. The ocean has been included in the Paris Agreement, the subsequent Global Climate Action Agenda in 2015, and the 23rd Conference of the Parties of the UN (COP23), held in November 2017, which has assessed the global progress toward the SDG14, organizing several action plans. The UN seems optimistic with the progress achieved towards SDG 14, suggesting that overfishing has slowed down in the past 10 years and that over 8.4% of the world's exclusive economic zones are under protection. However, only a small fraction of that is under strong protection and many priority areas are still unprotected. In addition, major challenges presented by signatory governments are slowing down or compromising the achievement of the 14 SDG targets. Despite the challenges, we envision hope towards the sustainability of the world's marine biodiversity, where managers, scientists, and stakeholders work together to defend biodiversity, ecosystem services, and resources that the world depends on.

2017年6月5日至9日，在联合国海洋大会期间，《生物多样性公约》（CBD）的签署国143个政府宣布了为实现可持续发展目标（SDG）的几个目标而做出的承诺和采取的战略14它的宗旨是“保护和可持续利用海洋，海洋和海洋资源促进可持续发展”。双方承诺在相对较短的时间内制定海洋空间规划，加强对海洋生态系统的可持续管理和保护，保护世界上至少10％的海洋生境，结束过度捕捞，为小规模渔民提供使用机会，减少海洋生物污染和海洋酸化等宏伟目标。海洋已被纳入《巴黎协定》和随后的2015年《全球气候行动议程》，以及2017年11月举行的第二十三届联合国缔约方会议（COP23），该会议评估了实现SDG14的全球进展，并组织了多项行动计划。联合国似乎对实现可持续发展目标14所取得的进展感到乐观，这表明过去10年中过度捕捞的速度有所放缓，世界上8.4％以上的专属经济区受到保护。但是，其中只有一小部分受到了强有力的保护，许多优先领域仍然没有得到保护。此外，签署国政府提出的主要挑战正在减缓或损害实现14个可持续发展目标的目标。尽管面临挑战，但我们仍希望寄希望于世界海洋生物多样性的可持续发展，管理者，科学家和利益相关者将在此共同努力捍卫生物多样性，生态系统服务，