Target setting process questions
Here we provide answers to common technical questions that companies have as they are going through the target-setting process.
Protect Structural Habitats target
The Protect Structural Habitats target addresses impacts from both aquaculture and wild fisheries. It aims to avoid and reduce damage to critical marine habitats such as coral reefs and seagrasses, and encourages engagement in seascapes and jurisdictions to restore and regenerate critically important marine habitat.
This target is designed for companies with wild-catch or aquaculture seafood in their operations or supply chain.
Each Ocean target has a series of different pathways that allow for multiple approaches to target-setting, depending on a company’s context.
Protect Structural Habitats Target Pathways:
- Operations – when companies have impacts in their direct operations or supply chain, they commit to improvements in operations to meet standards of best practice
- Engagement – as above, but the company is unable to influence adoption of best practice among its suppliers, so it commits to improvement initiatives at the seascape or jurisdictional level; also encouraged for operations pathway.
Example target
“By 2030, Caridea’s suppliers will implement improvement efforts to reduce nutrient discharge into waters surrounding its shrimp farms in Southeast Asia, in line with their carrying capacity, to reduce harmful impacts to local mangroves and coral reefs.”
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