progress is slow however as illustrated by the difficulties in reaching consensus even in areas such as transparency and notifications financial and technical assistance as well as technology transfer target a will be important to many sids and ldcs as they look to create and implement national and regional strategies for sustainability preservation and protection of their fisheries industries these interlinked goals provide a new framework for advancing sustainable development over the next years today the global population is about billion a figure projected to reach about billion by undesa some billion more people will populate the earth in years from now