Exploring the future of the institutional landscape of the oceans beyond national jurisdiction

Elferink, Alex G. Oude

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“…Currently, however, there is no official global body in charge of the identification and management of area-based management tools on the High Seas (Van Dover et al, 2016;Becker-Weinberg, 2017;De Santo, 2018;Elferink, 2019). As a result, such conservation and sustainable use measures are currently implemented within a fragmented framework by regional and sectoral organizations with different management competences (See Figure 1) (Drankier, 2012;Durussel et al, 2017).…”

Section: An Ocean In Need Of Protection: Area-based Management Toolsmentioning

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The Voice of Science on Marine Biodiversity Negotiations: A Systematic Literature Review

Wysocki

Vadrot

2020

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Over one hundred governments are currently negotiating a new legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). The new agreement is to address four broad themes: marine genetic resources (MGRs); area-based management tools (ABMTs), including marine protected areas (MPAs); environmental impact assessments (EIAs); and capacity building and the transfer of marine technology (CB&TT). Although a large corpus of scientific BBNJ literature exists, a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the academic debate is currently missing. This systematic review seeks to fill this gap by examining the main priority topics and recommendations in a sample of 140 multidisciplinary, geographically diverse publications. As an up-to-date summary and analysis, it is intended for researchers from diverse academic disciplines in the natural and social sciences, policy-makers, and practitioners. It untangles the complex BBNJ negotiations, highlights the policy relevance of existing work, and facilitates links between science, policy, and practice. It presents recommendations made in the literature sample for each of the four package elements of the future treaty and identifies four overarching themes: ocean connectivity, institutional design, the role of science, and digital technology. This paper identifies two important gaps that need to be addressed if we are to conserve marine biodiversity in international waters: the science-policy interfaces and the need for transformative change.

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Section: An Ocean In Need Of Protection: Area-based Management Toolsmentioning

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The Voice of Science on Marine Biodiversity Negotiations: A Systematic Literature Review

Wysocki

Vadrot

2020

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…A key question of the negotiations is how any proposed institutional arrangements of the ILBI (including institutional structures, policies, systems and processes for decision making, funding mechanisms and information exchange) will interact with existing sectoral and regional institutional arrangements that are already governing many activities in ABNJ [ 21 ]. At the third negotiating session [ 14 ], there was general support for the establishment of a conference of the parties, a scientific and technical body and a secretariat and for setting out their main functions in the ILBI but there is no agreement yet on their functions [V.13–15].…”

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Practical policy solutions for the final stage of BBNJ treaty negotiations

Humphries

Harden‐Davies

2020

Marine Policy

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The oceans are facing a catastrophic decline in biodiversity. States are now in the final stage of negotiations for an implementing agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to fill governance gaps for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. This paper outlines the apparent areas of convergence and divergence between States on the 2019 draft treaty text. It outlines the contributions of the articles in this Special Issue “Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Treaty: the Final Stage of Negotiations”, which offer suggestions for breaking negotiation deadlocks and practical ideas for transformative governance change. As States prepare for the postponed fourth and final (planned) negotiating session, we hope that this Special Issue will offer a useful tool for decision-makers and other stakeholders by offering creative ideas for BBNJ governance and for reaching timely agreement on the BBNJ treaty text.

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“…16 The ILBI will thus likely overlap with the existing global and regional regimes for BBNJ, which means that "a major concern in negotiating the ILBI is the avoidance of the potential for fragmentation of the law and decision-making procedures." 17 Bioprospecting, which can be defined as "the process of identifying unique characteristics of marine organisms for the purpose of developing them into commercially valuable products," 18 is already subject to a complicated regulatory setting in the Southern Ocean. 19 The reason for this is that not only the different instruments of the ATS, but also the LOSC and the CBD are relevant for its regulation in the Southern Ocean.…”

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Revisiting Bioprospecting in the Southern Ocean in the Context of the BBNJ Negotiations

Nickels

2020

Ocean Development & International Law

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This article revisits marine bioprospecting in the Southern Ocean in the context of the efforts to develop an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. After briefly introducing the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), this article examines the extent to which the ILBI will likely spatially overlap with the ATS. As the next step, it is highlighted that future provisions on marine genetic resources (MGRs) in the ILBI might substantively differ from the way the ATS currently regulates bioprospecting. Based on that, the final section reflects on how the ILBI will normatively and institutionally relate to the ATS.

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Exploring the future of the institutional landscape of the oceans beyond national jurisdiction

Cited by 17 publications

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The Voice of Science on Marine Biodiversity Negotiations: A Systematic Literature Review

The Voice of Science on Marine Biodiversity Negotiations: A Systematic Literature Review

Practical policy solutions for the final stage of BBNJ treaty negotiations

Revisiting Bioprospecting in the Southern Ocean in the Context of the BBNJ Negotiations

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