A Greater Purpose for Icebergs: Iceberg Trade to Combat the Effects of Climate Change

Three-fourths of the planet’s freshwater is stored in glaciers, and as the glaciers melt, humans are forfeiting their greatest freshwater resource. Climbing global temperatures, attributable to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, accelerate glacial melt while intensifying drought and wate...

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Main Author: Foden, Lee A.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: University of Maine School of Law Digital Commons 2024
Subjects:
Arctic
Iceberg
Climate Change
Greenhouse Gas
Trade
Remedies
Right to Water
Glacier
Natural Resources
Admiralty
Energy and Utilities Law
Environmental Law
International Trade Law
Law of the Sea
Natural Resources Law
Water Law
Climate change
Iceberg*
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu/oclj/vol29/iss2/11
https://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu/context/oclj/article/1440/viewcontent/vol29_oclj_393.pdf
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Summary:Three-fourths of the planet’s freshwater is stored in glaciers, and as the glaciers melt, humans are forfeiting their greatest freshwater resource. Climbing global temperatures, attributable to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, accelerate glacial melt while intensifying drought and water scarcity. This Comment identifies a way to relocate our greatest freshwater resource before it melts into the salty sea. Further, this Comment discusses how an iceberg trade could ensure the right to water by creating access to freshwater for all. Finally, this Comment introduces the iceberg trade as an equitable remedy to be employed by the Paris Agreement in the global response to climate change.

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