Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



Featured Remarks



1 The Journey to Realisation

  Rena Lee



2 The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Present Geo- Political Situation

  Hans Corell



3 Managing High Seas Through a Sui Generis

  Arif Havas Oegroseno



PART 1

Context—Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)



4 BBNJ Treaty Negotiations 2019

  J. Ashley Roach



5 Area-Based Management Tools, Including Marine Protected Areas – Reflections on the Status of Negotiations

  Lisa Eurén Höglund



PART 2

Marine Genetic Resources, Access & Benefit Sharing



6 Benefit Sharing: Combining Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets, Science and an Ecosystem- Focused Approach

  Marcel Jaspars and Abbe E. L. Brown



7 Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: (Intellectual) Property Heuristics

  Siva Thambisetty



PART 3

Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA S), Scientific Data and Databases, Sensor Technology



8 The Quest to Completely Map the World’s Oceans in Support of Understanding Marine Biodiversity and the Regulatory Barriers we Have Created

  Larry Mayer and J. Ashley Roach



9 Mitigating Human Impacts on Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: Potential Benefits of the International Legally Binding Instrument

  Robin Warner



10 Not an Intractable Challenge: Geoengineering MSR in ABNJ

  Karen N. Scott



PART 4

Capacity Building and Transfer of Technology (CBTT)



11 Capacity Building in Marine Science – Added Value of the BBNJ?

  Alf Håkon Hoel



12 Marine Technology Transfer: Towards a Capacity-Building Toolkit for Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction

  Harriet Harden-Davies



PART 5

Cross-cutting Issues



13 Beholding the Emerging Biodiversity Agreement through a Looking Glass: What Capacity-Building and Gender Equality Norms Should Be Found There?

  Ronán Long



14 A Few Words on the “Cross-Cutting Issue”——The Relationship between a BBNJ Convention and Existing, Relevant Instruments and Frameworks and Relevant Global, Regional and Sectoral Bodies

  Ted L. McDorman



15 Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction and the Limits of the Commons: Spatial and Functional Complexities

  Joanna Mossop and Clive Schofield



PART 6

Arctic Issues: Environment, Security, Shipping



16 Non-Arctic States’ Role in the High North: Participating in Arctic Governance Through Cooperation

  Nong Hong



17 Round Two for Arctic Fishing?

  David Dubay



Index

About the Author

Myron H. Nordquist is the Associate Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, and Senior Fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982: a Commentary, the seven-volume “Virginia Commentary” series, plus a Supplementary Documents volume.



Ronán Long is Director of the WMU-Sasakawa Global Institute and holds the Nippon Foundation Professorial Chair in Ocean Governance and the Law of the Sea at the World Maritime University, where he lectures on Ocean Governance, Law of the Sea and International Dispute Resolution and Diplomacy. He has also lectured at the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy and is a supervisor of advanced academic research under the United Nations - The Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship Programme.