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Marine Genetic Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Promoting Marine Scientific Research and Enabling Equitable Benefit Sharing

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Growing human activity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) is driving increasing impacts on the biodiversity of this vast area of the ocean. As a result, the United Nations General Assembly committed to convening a series of intergovernmental ...
Alex D. Rogers   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

The BBNJ negotiations and ecosystem governance in the arctic

open access: yesMarine Policy, 2022
Abstract The aim of this article is to explore the question of ecosystem governance in the Arctic, in light of the potential implications of the ongoing negotiations towards a new global treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction for ecosystem governance of the Arctic.
openaire   +2 more sources

National Security Considerations for a Binding Instrument on Managing Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction

open access: yesAJIL Unbound, 2018
The effort to negotiate and adopt a legally binding instrument to manage marine biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction (BBNJ) implicates national security interests both directly and tangentially.
James Kraska
doaj   +1 more source

Abundant interactions and feedbacks between aquatic deoxygenation and the other planetary boundaries suggest “unsafe” levels of oxygen loss with far‐reaching impacts

open access: yesLimnology and Oceanography, Volume 71, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Oxygen is critical for nearly all life on Earth, including aquatic species that breathe dissolved oxygen in both freshwater and marine systems. The rapid, global, and anthropogenic loss of dissolved oxygen known as “aquatic deoxygenation” threatens life in these environments, the human communities that depend on them, and Earth system ...
Erica M. Ferrer   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Participation in the Conservation & Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Participation of civil society in the negotiations on marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) remains limited and below the standards adopted under other multilateral environmental negotiations (Morgera et al., 2022), both in ...
Sauer, Warwick   +7 more
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Deep Dark Futures: Foresighting Human Impacts on Mesopelagic Ecosystem Services

open access: yesFish and Fisheries, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 876-894, July 2026.
This study uses foresighting to explore four plausible future scenarios of human activity affecting mesopelagic ecosystem services; provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural. Using participatory scenario development, qualitative network modelling and indicator design, we assess systemic risks and early warning signals linked to harvest, climate
Ben Scoulding   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

The work of the Arctic Council, and the Future Cooperation with the new BBNJ Agreement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The objective of this thesis is to explore the role of the Arctic Council and its working groups vis-à-vis the future BBNJ Agreement. What will the impact of the BBNJ agreement on Arctic governance be?
Andersen, Trine
core  

Interpreting the Non-Undermining Clause of the BBNJ Agreement: Restrictive or Complementary Roles for the COP within RFMO Competences?

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network
The recently adopted Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement ( BBNJ Agreement) aims to foster greater international cooperation and coordination in conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national
Ekaterina Antsygina
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Whose knowledge, whose cure? traditional medicine and the boundaries of WIPO's 2024 genetic resources treaty

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 359-380, July 2026.
Abstract Traditional medicine—including complementary, integrative, Indigenous, and ancestral practices—remains a vital source of healthcare for billions worldwide, particularly in the Global South. Despite its widespread use and biomedical relevance, traditional medicinal knowledge has long been excluded from dominant intellectual property systems ...
Tolulope Anthony Adekola
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic environmental assessment in areas beyond national jurisdiction: existing regimes, challenges, and prospects

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
As a system based on domestic law, strategic environmental assessment (SEA) can take environmental factors into consideration in the formulation of policies, plans, and programmes, and has received much attention in the field of environmental governance ...
Yuanming Song   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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