12 Article 211 (5) allows coastal states to adopt pollution prevention and control laws for vessels operating in their EEZ13 and Article 211 (6) allows coastal states to adopt, subject to approval from the Inte
California’s attorney general is investigating Exxon Mobil C and other fossil-fuel and petrochemical companies, accusing them of misleading the public about the impact of plastic pollution. He said his office has issued a subpoena to Exxon seeking information about what he called an “anaggressive ...
The regime for the prevention of vessel-source pollution is described in the following parts of UNCLOS: Part XII “Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment”, Part II “Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone” and Part V “Exclusive Economic Zone”. Under the UNCLOS, a state’s legisl...
due diligence and to elaborate about the conditions governing the breach of such obligation. The present contribution aims at revisiting the issue of the breach of the obligation to prevent environmental damage in light of recent international case law and to assess its relevance for the process of...
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1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 29 December 1972, 1046 UNTS 120, entered into force 30 August 1975, Article 16; Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean, 16 ...
Although many countries worldwide have implemented various environmental laws, their effectiveness in practice remains a challenge for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. The existing climate pledges and legislation are not adequate to achieve the goal...
and pollution or protection of the environment, including all those relating to the presence, use, production, generation, handling, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, distribution, labeling, testing, processing, discharge, release, threatened release, control or cleanup of, or exposure to,...
Despite high home prices and air pollution, more professionals decided to stay in Beijing than leave in the past five quarters as the country's capital offered most job opportunities, according to figures released on Tuesday. China counts on aggressive tax cut to spur economy As the biggest tax...
It addresses the main sources of ocean pollution: land and coastal activities, continental shelf drilling, seabed mining, ocean dumping, and vessel-source pollution. The Law of the Sea also established the International Seabed Authority, which regulates activities in the deep seabed beyond national ...