The Haga Initiative is a network of companies that strives to reduce carbon emissions from the business sector and highlight the climate issue, by showing that ambitious climate strategies create business advantages and improve profitability. Our vision is a profitable business without climate impact.

Coastal and marine ecosystems have a critical function as carbon sinks. Carbon captured and stored in oceans is often referred to as blue carbon. 83% of the global carbon cycle is circulated through the ocean, according to thebluecarboninitiative.org.

However, oceans themselves are also highly affected by climate change, which causes ocean warming, acidification, and disruption of the very carbon-binding ecosystems we depend on.

Hence, SDG 14 and SDG 13 are strongly synergistic, as concluded in the report A Guide To SDG Interactions: From Science To Implementation, published by the International Council for Science in May 2017:

Failing to tackle SDG 13 will have major consequences for oceans and coasts; however, sustainable use and conservation of oceans and coasts and their resources can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The Haga Initiative have set a 40% reduction goal for GHG emissions by 2020 and are committed to a target at zero net emissions by 2030. These actions will help mitigate the detrimental climate effects on our oceans, and thus contribute to reinforcing or restoring the blue carbon carrying capacity of marine and coastal ecosystems.