Living Blue Planet Report

Living Blue Planet Report page 50

Blue planet solutions

As the preceding chapters make clear, marine and coastal
ecosystems are in serious trouble, and the pressures upon them
continue to mount. If we don’t reverse these trends, the implications
will be profound – for the security, well-being and way of life of
hundreds of millions of people, for local and global economies, and
for the future generations who inherit this blue planet.
The picture in this report is bleak – yet there are signs of
hope. It’s not too late to save our seas: opportunities and solutions
exist for governments, business and industry, and civil society to rise
to the challenge and work together to secure a living ocean for all.
WWF’s One Planet Perspective (Figure 24) provides a framework
for preserving and managing our ocean resources within ecological
limits. It highlights the need to preserve our natural marine capital,
produce resources like seafood and energy in a better way, and
consume these resources more wisely. And it outlines two essential
enabling conditions – redirecting financial flows to support these
priorities, and equitable resource governance that ensures our ocean
is looked after for the benefit of all.
This chapter introduces examples of how, all over the world,
the One Planet Perspective is being put into practice – and of
how marine ecosystems, and the people who depend on them, are
benefiting. We need to see solutions like these rolled out on a far
greater scale – urgently.

Figure 24: WWF’s One

Planet Perspective

provides a framework

for making better

choices for the marine

environment.

Food, water

and energy

security

Equitable

Resource

Governance

• Ocean
  governance


• Food security


• Community-
  based
  management
  structures


• Empowerment/
  gender issues

Preserve Natural Capital

• Marine protected areas: nurseries of
  the sea and coastal resilience


• Ecological functions


• Ecosystem restoration

Biodiversity

conservation

Ecosystem

integrity

• Payment for
  ecosystem
  services


• Greening
  investments


• Redirection of
  funds/subsidies


• Natural capital
  valuation

Redirect

Financial

Flows Produce Better

• Sustainable fisheries


• Sustainable coastal development and
  tourism


• Sustainble development/infrastructure


• Sustainable seafood consumption


• Responsible tourism


• Efficient use of energy and materials

Consume More Wisely