Proposal of Recommendation of How to Increase the Cooperation Concerning Environmental Issues between Consultative Parties of the Antarctic Treaty

• Main Author: Salamanca, Ricardo
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14241

One Of the main elements established in the Antarctic Treaty is the need for 'cooperation' between the State Members to accomplish the aims and objectives Of the Treaty. Cooperation is seen as an important and useful tool with which the Antarctic Treaty Consultative (ATC) Parties can ensure efficient planning and management Of their Antarctic activities, as well as finding answers and solutions to the complicated issues that are discussed within the Antarctic Treaty System (AT S). It is well known that the 27 Consultative Parties of the Treaty have successfully developed Antarctic cooperation in both logistic and scientific areas. But collaboration between countries on environmental issues has not yet been extensively explored. The different levels of expertise, budgets, and technological know-how of the Parties involved in Antarctic activities is perhaps one of the main barriers for successfully developing environmental cooperation in Antarctica. Since the XXIII Antarctic Treaty Meeting (XXIII ATCM) held in Lima in 1999, some steps have been taken to evaluate such cooperation undertaken by Consultative Parties, especially since 1998 when the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (known as the Madrid Protocol) entered into force. Official documents concerning this issue have subsequently been presented and debated in the Antarctic Consultative Meetings. In 2002, during the Warsaw Meeting, the ATC Parties decided that this subject would be discussed more thoroughly in the Committee on Environmental Protection (CEP) annual meetings. This project One Of the main elements established in the Antarctic Treaty is the need for 'cooperation' between the State Members to accomplish the aims and objectives Of the Treaty. Cooperation is seen as an important and useful tool with which the Antarctic Treaty Consultative (ATC) Parties can ensure efficient planning and management Of their Antarctic activities, as well as finding answers and solutions to the complicated issues that are discussed within the ...