Prof. Baozhi Cheng1 1Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, Shanghai, China Last October, the Agreement on the regulation of the IUU fishing in the Central Arctic Ocean reached by the Arctic 5+5 regime, which is, to some extent, a kind of...

Dr Tanja Joona1 1Arctic Centre, University Of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland The Arctic is often described as vulnerable, cold and exotic place with stereotypical images of indigenous and non-indigenous communities, where people live in peace and harmony with the environment. Arctic...

Ms Jill Barrett1,2 1Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2Associate Member 6 Pump Court Chambers, London, United Kingdom Effective compliance with and enforcement of treaty obligations are essential to the credibility of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), a...

Ms Sabrina Hasan Arctic Ocean (AO) being enriched with marine resources and due to its rapid changes, opening the door for human activities, it has attracted the concern of the protection of the Arctic marine biodiversity through the effective implementation...

Ms Carolina Flores1, Dr  Luis Valentin Ferrada 1University Of Chile Law School, Santiago, Chile As the effects of Climate Change and deterioration of the environment are more visible day after day, Antarctic’s environmental value and the role that it will...

Dr Martin Mennecke The UN Human Rights Council is the UN’s primary body to focus on promoting and protecting human rights all over the globe. In this context, the Council is also equipped with a number of special instruments to...

Associate Professor Tatiana Sorokina Issues related to protection of the Arctic environment are becoming increasingly urgent, as Arctic ecosystems are vulnerable to increasing anthropogenic pressures. The problem of protecting Northern nature from the effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which...

Mr Assi Harkoma1 1Artic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is considered to be an important tool for sustainable development in the Arctic. Since economic activities are likely to increase in the area, the EIA in project planning will...

Ms Ilaria Tani1 1University of Milan-Bicocca, , Italy In the Arctic, a considerable portion of the water column lies “beyond national jurisdiction”. More limited, in terms of extension, are destined to be the spaces falling under the regime of the...

Dr Sangeetha Chandrashekeran   The polarisation of political debate around decarbonising Australia’s electricity sector has obscured a significant development: the actually existing, if unexpected, convergence of ideas around the role of the state in the political economy of energy. After...