Environmental Impact Assessment in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Marin Genetic Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction is a Subject in Intellectual Property Rights

The discovery of marine genetic resources has led to increase of the number of international maritime patent claims .Given the unique characteristics of these organisms, the genetic resources derived from these organisms have great potential in the medical field and for research and development in the fields of antioxidants, fungal treatments, AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis, malaria And antibiotics...

Ocean in peril: reforming the management of global ocean living resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

This article presents the outcome of research aimed at assisting governments in meeting their commitments and legal obligations for sustainable fisheries, based on increasing evidence that global fisheries are in crisis. The article assesses the effectiveness of the existing legal and institutional framework for high seas living resources. It focuses on: (1) the role of regional fisheries manag...

Negotiating the Use of Biodiversity in Marine Areas beyond National Jurisdiction

A relatively small group of states is disproportionately active in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), raising questions of equity, while a myriad of sectoral regulations and guidelines spread across multiple international bodies has led to uneven conservation and use of biological diversity and resources in these areas. Within this context, the UN General Assembly resolved in 201...

The conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction

The context to this paper is the difficulty – recognised by the Conference of the Parties (COP)of the Convention on Biological Diversity – of protecting deep seabed genetic resources and of conserving and sustainably using biodiversity in marine areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction. The COP has identified a number of actions including the establishment of networks of marine protecte...

Conserving marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction: co-evolution and interaction with the law of the sea

*Correspondence: Robin M. Warner, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong, ITAMS Building 233, Innovation Campus Squires Way, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia e-mail: [email protected] As global shipping intensifies and technological advances provide more opportunities to access the resources of the high seas and the deep seabed beyond national juri...

Seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries Vulnerability of deep-sea corals to fishing on seamounts beyond areas of national jurisdiction