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First United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
The meeting began the first round of treaty-based ocean lawmaking in which different countries participated in as equals. The conference adopted four conventions on the law of the sea: the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, the Convention on t...
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Adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
The Convention is regarded as the “constitution of the ocean”. It delimits the national jurisdiction over the oceans and establishes the International Seabed Authority, which manages the mineral resources of the international seabed on behalf of all mankind and ensu...
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The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Takes Effect
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources was established to begin the management of fishing activities in Antarctic waters.
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United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement
The United Nations Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (the United Nations...
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World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10)
The meeting adopted the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and Article 30(c) of the plan sets out the global goal of establishing a representative marine protected area in 2012.
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 59/24
The Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group on the Study of Conservation and Sustainable Use of BBNJ was established by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 59/24 in 2004, which exchanged views on institutional coordination, the necessity of short-t...
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CCAMLR First Workshop on Marine Protected Areas
The meeting officially launched a discussion on the CCAMLR marine protected area.
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CCAMLR 28th Annual Meeting
The South Orkney Islands South Shelf Marine Reserve was established, and China began the krill detection in the Southern Ocean in the same year.
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Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
The meeting adopted the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing and adopted the Aichi Target, which includes the area of terrestrial biological resources reserves should reach 17% and the area of marine biological resources reserves should ...
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4th Meeting of the BBNJ Ad Hoc Working Group
The meeting adopted a series of recommendations on the process to initiate the legal framework for the protection and sustainable use of BBNJ by consensus. These recommendations include a series of issues to be discussed as a whole in this process, including: marine ...
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United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)
Countries are committed to accelerating the work of the BBNJ Ad Hoc Working Group, and will respond to the issue of the conservation and sustainable use of BBNJ before the end of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, including decisions on whether to develop a...
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CCAMLR 31st Annual Meeting
The proposal for two large marine protected areas of the Ross Sea and the East Antarctic formally entered the agenda of the Committee. However, due to opposition from China and Russia for procedural reasons, no substantive discussions were made at the formal meeting ...
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9th meeting of the BBNJ Working Group
At the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Working Group reached a consensus on the decision to develop a new International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) regarding BBNJ under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and sta...
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CCAMLR 34th Annual Meeting
Facilitated by the China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue and the China-US presidential summit, China agreed to the revised proposal for the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area. The proposal for the East Antarctic Protected Area has been cut down in size multiple times and ...
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CCAMLR 35th Annual Meeting
The meeting adopted the proposal for the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area and established the world's largest marine protected area. The MPA covers 1.55 million square kilometers with 1.12 million square kilometers of no-take area. In addition, the EU presented the Wed...
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The 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
The Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting was held in China for the first time. Greenovation Hub collaborated with the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition to organize multiple side events and supported a number of travel agencies to launch the “Responsible Tourism...
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United Nations General Assembly resolution 72/249
The resolution decided to officially launch the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on the treaty of Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) in September 2018. The negotiations are expected to end in the first half of 2020. Once the treaty is agreed, half of ...
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CCAMLR 37th Annual Meeting
Argentina and Chile formally submitted proposals for the establishment of a marine protected area in the West Antarctic Peninsula.