Protection of the marine environment from offshore oil and gas activities

• Main Authors: Liu, Nengye, School of Law
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 2015
• Subjects: Environmental and Natural Resources Law; International Law (excl. International Trade Law); Arctic; Barents Sea; Cairn; Greenland; Kara Sea; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18440

Global energy consumption has doubled since the early 1970s. According to the International Energy Agency, this is likely to increase by 2035 by more than one-third, due to world population growth and development in the major emerging economies of China and India. As a consequence, the oceans are at...