The Nereus Program is a global interdisciplinary initiative between the Nippon Foundation and the University of British Columbia that was created to further our knowledge of how best to attain sustainability for our world’s oceans.

[5] 2015: Press conference on the Nereus Program report in Tokyo[6] (covered by 20 international media outlets, including CBS, and five major Japanese newspapers).

2013: Side event at the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea on seafood security and climate change (attended by nine countries representatives including Japan, US and Palau) The Nereus Program provides fellowships to young scholars who conduct their research at participating academic institutes.

Program Alumni have gone on to marine research positions in various institutes, including at the USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,[8] University of South Carolina,[9] International Atomic Energy Agency,[10] and ETH Zurich.

Within the report, Nereus affiliate members have highlighted the idea that climate issues and social equity issues are inter-related; thus, this report has deduced that improving the health of our oceans through SDG 14 targets will contribute to the improvement of other areas of society, including, but not limited to, gender equality, sustained economic development, education quality, terrestrial conservation, reduced poverty, and food security.