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their life on earth 5,000 years from now. These are the bigger, the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO aiming to bring together longer span questions that we keep in mind of when living our all available bathymetric data to produce the de? nitive map of lives, because the ocean is in danger, especially from over- the world ocean ? oor by 2030, making the information avail- ? shing and the various other problems.” able to all.

Education is core to many Nippon Foundation endeavors, “When I visited the Johnson Space Center (recently), I no- and it is no different when it comes to the world’s oceans. ticed that they already have a very detailed topography – the “We feel that the human capacity building is essential, to map of the Mars that are 15 million kilometers away from educate people and having the expertise to manage this ocean this earth. But we still do not have the topographic chart – the (from a global perspective). For the last 30 years we have been seabed bathometric chart – for our earth. So we are targeting educating 1,200 people from 140 different countries, educat- 2030 as a landmark year for us to be able to complete the proj- ing from the standpoint of expert capacity-building. Scienti? c ect to (create this seabed chart), to identify where resources knowledge, such as measurements for the topography and ba- may lie, and at the same time help the potential of the further thometric chart-making, is essential. exploration in the future of the required resources for the liv-

At the same time, (this creates) educated people who would ings of the people in a more effective, safer manner.” be able to run the maritime, or port, related to the sea agendas. If that’s not enough: The World Maritime University

And having these experts in place, we feel that these people (WMU) and The Nippon Foundation late last year an- would now be able to collaborate in a cross-border manner in nounced to operationalize the WMU-Sasakawa Global order to build more of a comprehensive system, or organiza- Ocean Institute (Ocean Institute), a concrete response to the tion, in order to be responsible to oversee the oceans around United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and in par- the world.” ticular Goal 14 – the Ocean Goal – that commits governments

Just as critical, Nippon Foundation is a leader in the Seabed to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine 2030 project. Seabed 2030 is a collaborative project between resources for sustainable development.

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