Shake it Off
Negotiations suspended, but hope simmering, after a lack of consensus at the fifth intergovernmental conference on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21519710 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Tiller (0000-0002-2505-9194, SINTEF, corresponding author), Elizabeth Mendenhall (0000-0001-8006-6488, University of Rhode Island), Elizabeth M De Santo (0000-0003-0975-1874, Franklin & Marshall College), Elizabeth De Santo, Elizabeth Nyman (0000-0001-6622-5710, Texas A&M University at Galveston) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 148 |
| Pages | 105457 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Marine Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-597X • E-ISSN: 1872-9460 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105457 |
| OpenAlex | W4312156828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 24 |
The process for formulating a new treaty for ‘Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction’ (BBNJ) has been long. Since informal discussions began in 2004, the international community has devoted nearly 20 years to setting the agenda, circumscribing the issue areas, and negotiating the terms of a legally binding BBNJ instrument. The fourth and fifth inter-governmental conferences (IGCs), which both occurred in 2022 after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, were supposed to be the last. But despite major movement, altered modalities, and three versions of the draft treaty texts circulated during IGC-5, another round of negotiations ended without consensus on a new agreement. This paper explores the relationships between the pace and content of the emerging treaty, on the one hand, and the dynamics of process, interests, power, and ideology, on the other. After an overview of the negotiation format and apparent progress, subsequent sections consider in turn the issue areas of marine genetic resources (MGRs), area-based management tools, including marine protected areas (ABMTs/MPAs), environmental impact assessments (EIAs), and capacity building and transfer of marine technology (CBTMT). Institutional arrangements and cross cutting issues are also highlighted as key areas where obstacles remain, but where there is simmering hope
Jurisdiction · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Treaty · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · International Environmental Law and Policies · International Maritime Law Issues · Law · Public Administration
Form follows function
The potential interactions between the BBNJ Agreement and RFMOs in the establishment of ABMTs
The Agreement on Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction – Caribbean Community perspectives on interests, asks and outcomes
The significance of the concept of a maritime community with a shared future in the international law-making process
Interplays between the BBNJ Agreement and the Antarctic Treaty System on the Southern Ocean bioprospecting
And so it begins – The adoption of the ‘Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction’ treaty
Applying environmental DNA approaches to inform marine biodiversity conservation
The ship has reached the shore
The likely impact of the BBNJ Agreement on the architecture of ocean governance
The Rule of Three
It takes two to tango
The conservation-extraction nexus in ocean Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
Process-Tracing Methods
Not ‘undermining’ who? Unpacking the emerging BBNJ regime complex
Stuck in the middle with you (and not much time left)
Adjacency and due regard
Direction, not detail
Institutional arrangements for the new BBNJ agreement
Ocean plastics and the BBNJ treaty—is plastic frightening enough to insert itself into the BBNJ treaty, or do we need to wait for a treaty of its own
Marine Biodiversity Negotiations During Covid-19
Precautionary discourse
Internationalization of EIA in a new marine biodiversity agreement under the Law of the Sea Convention
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |