A Conservation Agenda for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: Legal Scan
A Conservation Agenda for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: Legal Scan
In an effort to better understand how a bespoke international legal instrument might be drafted to protect Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), this legal scan does two things: 1) it surveys the international legal framework that applies to three specific threats to BBNJ, pollution arising from seabed activities; fisheries and biomass depletion; and ocean acidification; and 2) it analyses two potential regulatory techniques and how they might address these threats: area-based management techniques (‘ABMT’) and environmental impact assessment (‘EIA’). As a conclusion to this analysis, three options, of increasing strength, are suggested for how each technique might be dealt with in the proposed treaty.
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A Conservation Agenda for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)
The conservation of BBNJ is a critical international conservation and political issue around which there is broad UN-led international consensus supporting a new protective legal instrument. However, there is limited agreement concerning the threats likely to affect BBNJ and therefore uncertainty over what measures should be included within the new legal instrument and how the…