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

• 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

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.