Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation
As sea-ice around Antarctica’s coastlines retracts, a massive ‘blue carbon’ area is emerging to replace it. This is a growing resource that is predicted to become the world’s largest natural carbon sequestration area. Given the loss of carbon sinks elsewhere and the existential threat of unabated cl...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:44410 2023-05-15T13:41:50+02:00 Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation Gogarty, B Bax, N Barnes, DKA Sands, C McGee, J Haward, M Lund Paulsen, M Moreno, B Moreau, C Held, C Downey, R McDonald, J McGee, J Barnes, R 2020 https://eprints.utas.edu.au/44410/ unknown Edward Elgar Publishing Gogarty, B orcid:0000-0002-9494-6598 , Bax, N, Barnes, DKA, Sands, C, McGee, J orcid:0000-0002-2093-5896 , Haward, M orcid:0000-0003-4775-0864 , Lund Paulsen, M, Moreno, B, Moreau, C, Held, C and Downey, R 2020 , 'Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation', in J McDonald and J McGee and R Barnes (eds.), Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts , Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 462-484. international law climate change blue carbon antarctic southern oceans Book Section NonPeerReviewed 2020 ftunivtasmania 2022-02-28T23:17:10Z As sea-ice around Antarctica’s coastlines retracts, a massive ‘blue carbon’ area is emerging to replace it. This is a growing resource that is predicted to become the world’s largest natural carbon sequestration area. Given the loss of carbon sinks elsewhere and the existential threat of unabated climate change, this is an incredibly important global good that must be protected and promoted. In this chapter, we explore the legal and diplomatic barriers to that protection and posit potential solutions. In particular, we suggest vertical institutional linkage between the Antarctic Treaty System and the United Nations climate regimes as a way of incentivizing the establishment of global cooperative marine protected areas around Antarctica’s coasts. Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Sea ice University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Antarctic The Antarctic |
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As sea-ice around Antarctica’s coastlines retracts, a massive ‘blue carbon’ area is emerging to replace it. This is a growing resource that is predicted to become the world’s largest natural carbon sequestration area. Given the loss of carbon sinks elsewhere and the existential threat of unabated climate change, this is an incredibly important global good that must be protected and promoted. In this chapter, we explore the legal and diplomatic barriers to that protection and posit potential solutions. In particular, we suggest vertical institutional linkage between the Antarctic Treaty System and the United Nations climate regimes as a way of incentivizing the establishment of global cooperative marine protected areas around Antarctica’s coasts. |
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Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation |
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Gogarty, B orcid:0000-0002-9494-6598 , Bax, N, Barnes, DKA, Sands, C, McGee, J orcid:0000-0002-2093-5896 , Haward, M orcid:0000-0003-4775-0864 , Lund Paulsen, M, Moreno, B, Moreau, C, Held, C and Downey, R 2020 , 'Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation', in J McDonald and J McGee and R Barnes (eds.), Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts , Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 462-484. |
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