Goal 14 Conserve and Sustainably Use the Oceans, Seas and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development

The UN Resolution Transforming our world: “the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” entered the stage from 1 January 2016 on and enshrines 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including 169 targets. This resolution seems to be a conceptual, normative answer to the global fluid pattern of economic transformation, namely: globalisation. Against the backdrop of ever more branching global interconnectedness, the SDGs lead to a multi-level legal order that follows various horizontal and vertical paths. The significance of the SDGs for the application of law in the context of regulations at international level within the framework of the UN and autonomously within international organisations appear to be clearly visible. At the vertical level, regional cooperations such as the EU, ASEAN and CARICOM are integrating the SDGs into various legal agreements, and something similar is currently unfolding at national and transnational levels as well. This new Commentary covers the whole field of Sustainable Development Law. This reading sample reveals the analysis of SDG 14 reflecting on historical, political, legal and practical influences in different jurisdictions