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Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining: A Law of the Sea Perspective

verfasst von : Philomène A. Verlaan

Erschienen in: Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Addressing the environmental issues raised by deep-sea mining may provide an example for the international community on how to implement correctly the unqualified requirement in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) that “States have the obligation to protect and preserve the marine environment”. This chapter offers an overview of how this could work.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Deep-Sea Mining and the Environment: An Introduction

Nächstes Kapitel Environmental Impacts of Nodule, Crust and Sulphide Mining: An Overview

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego Bay, 10 December 1982, in force 16 November 1994) 1833 UNTS 3 (LOSC). The LOSC is our world’s “Constitution for the Oceans” (Koh, 1983). TTB Koh (1983) ‘A Constitution for the Oceans. Remarks by Tommy T. B. Koh of Singapore, President of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.’ In: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, with Index and Final Act of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (United Nations Publication No. E.83.V.5, New York, NY) pp. xxxiii-xxxvii.

LOSC Article 192.

LOSC Preamble, 3rd paragraph.

LOSC Articles 194, 207, 213.

LOSC Articles 194, 212, 222.

Note the precautionary language.

See, e.g. LOSC Articles 194–196, 207–212, 213–222.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Rio de Janeiro, 9 May 1992, in force 21 March 1994) 31 ILM 849 (UNFCCC).

UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/72/249: International legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (hereinafter: BBNJ negotiations), available at http://www.un.org/depts/los/general_assembly/general_assembly_resolutions.htm; accessed 6 July 2018. The first round of BBNJ negotiations took place in September 2018.

A detailed elaboration of these arguments is set out in Verlaan, P. (2018). The interface of science and law: A challenge to the privileging of ‘marine biodiversity’ over ‘marine environment’. In R. A. Barnes, & R. Long (Eds.), Frontiers in international environmental law: Oceans and climate challenges (Brill, Leiden) in press.

For purposes of LOSC Part XI, these are defined as “all solid, liquid or gaseous mineral resources in situ in the Area at or beneath the seabed”. LOSC Article 133(a).

LOSC Article 157. It is ironic that these same state parties are also participating in the BBNJ negotiations, which are being conducted on the opposite premise.

LOSC Article 133(b).

Lodge, M., & Verlaan, P. (2018). Deep-sea mining: International regulatory challenges and responses. Elements (in press).

LOSC Article 1(1)(1).

See LOSC Article 145, which is the governing article applicable specifically to “activities in the Area”; other marine environmental protection requirements for these activities are found elsewhere in the LOSC, including in Part XII, which is dedicated to the marine environment.

LOSC Article 145(b).

Titel: Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining: A Law of the Sea Perspective
verfasst von: Philomène A. Verlaan
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-12695-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-12696-4

Copyright-Jahr: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12696-4_2