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

Frontiers 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, Amy Baco, Elva Escobar-Briones, Duncan Currie, Kristina Gjerde, Judith Gobin, Marcel Jaspars, Lisa Levin, Katrin Linse, Muriel Rabone, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Javier Sellanes, Timothy M. Shank, Kerry Sink, Kerry Sink, Paul V. R. Snelgrove, Michelle L. Taylor, Daniel Wagner, Harriet Harden-Davies   +18 more
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Identifying and Describing Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs): A Key Tool for the Protection of Ocean Biodiversity in Dispute

Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 2022
The distribution of legal authority to protect biodiversity in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) between the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) has been a contentious issue.
Christian Prip
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Implementing the EIA provisions of the BBNJ Agreement in the international seabed area: obstacles and recommendations

Frontiers in Marine Science
While the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement establishes a comprehensive environmental impact assessment (EIA) regime, its application of the EIA provisions to the international seabed area (the Area) presents significant ...
Nan Jiang, Jiahui Wang, Xin Pan, Xin Pan
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The area-based management tools coordination between IMO and BBNJ agreement regimes and its implications on vessel pollution control

Frontiers in Marine Science
The International Maritime Organization (IMO), as a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for the safety and security of international shipping and the prevention of pollution from ships, has applied two main area-based management tools ...
Jinpeng Wang, Jinpeng Wang, Yiwei Zhang
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ChatBBNJ: a question–answering system for acquiring knowledge on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction

Frontiers in Marine Science
The marine biodiversity in Areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), encompassing approximately two-thirds of the global ocean, is persistently declining.
Xiaowei Wang, Mingdan Zhang, Hao Liu, Xiaodong Ma, Yingchao Liu, Yitong Chen   +5 more
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Blue Economy Research (2011–2025): A Longitudinal Bibliometric Review and Its Alignment With Global Ocean Governance

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Blue Economy has emerged as a key framework for promoting sustainable development in marine and coastal systems. This study provides a longitudinal bibliometric review of peer‐reviewed Blue Economy research published between 2011 and 2025.
Álvaro J. Rojas‐Lamorena, Bárbara Montero‐González, Manuel Hernández‐Peinado, Tamara Guerrero‐Gómez   +3 more
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Science Collaboration for Capacity Building: Advancing Technology Transfer Through a Treaty for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Marine technology transfer and capacity building are key elements in the development of a historic new agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ agreement) under the United ...
Harriet Harden-Davies, Paul Snelgrove
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 1735-1759, August 2026.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
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The entanglement between the IUCN Red List and international biodiversity law

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species (red list) is of fundamental importance for nature conservation and biodiversity protection. I considered the interaction between the red list and international biodiversity law (IBL), the legal regime that aims to protect biodiversity at a global level ...
Rens Claerhoudt
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Strategic environmental assessment in areas beyond national jurisdiction: existing regimes, challenges, and prospects

Frontiers 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, Zhengkai Mao, Zhijun Zhang   +2 more
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