Life Below Water of the UN Sustainable Development Framework: An Existing Legal Framework and Potential Threats of Blue Ocean in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper is an analysis of goal 14 (life below water/targets) of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals 2019 to the development of marine/blue economy towards the attainment of the said goal, existing legal framework and potential threats in Nigeria and the global environment. The threats examined in this paper include: the threat of ocean acidification, the threat of ocean dead zones, the threat of overfishing and the threat of ocean waste in the oceans. The paper adopts an admixture of the doctrinal, historical, comparative, the law and development and empirical approaches. The paper ends with a conclusion and a set of recommendations.

Keywords

• analyses, goal 14, life below water, targets, united nations, sustainable development, goals 2019, development, marine/blue economy, attainment, existing, legal framework, potential, threats, nigeria, global environment.