Tag: seas
Lighted seas of memories of Rud for their missing loved ones
Father Per and children Emma and Sigrid are on their way to Rud’s cemetery. In his hand, Per carries a plastic bag with candles and a lighter. – We are…
A vandal blew up a pipe and severed a cable in the northern seas last year – linking the incidents with the latest pipeline failure
The sabotage against the Nordstream gas pipeline is still unsolved. The rupture of the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland is not the first of its kind. In January…
Anne-Sophie Roux: “Treaty on the high seas, the idea is to protect international waters”
Opening at the UN on the sidelines of the 78th General Assembly of this organization, of the signatures of the treaty on the protection of the high seas. Anne-Sophie Roux,…
Arctic, submarine cables, disputed zones… An essential “geopolitics of the seas”
Consider the following scenario. Due to the premature melting of the ice in the Arctic Ocean, Russia now exports a significant part of its natural gas via the so-called North-East…
The world’s seas have warmed in an exceptional way in just a few weeks – scientists are trying to understand what is happening in the seas
Scientists think it is clear that the warming of sea waters will change the Earth’s climate strongly in the near future. The average temperature of the Earth’s oceans has risen…
Treaty on the oceans: “A very big step for the protection of the high seas”
For many observers, it is a “historic” document which has just been signed by members of the UN. The text of the treaty to protect the high seas, finalized by…
The agreement at the UN on the protection of the high seas “aims to address several legal loopholes”
After fifteen years of negotiations, the Member States of the United Nations agreed this Sunday March 5 on the first international treaty for the protection of the high seas. Interview…
High Seas Treaty: a “historic” agreement after 15 years of discussions
The last session of the Intergovernmental Conference ended at United Nations headquarters in New York to loud applause for several minutes. After more than 15 years of discussions, including four…
An agreement on the protection of the open seas was finally reached after years of negotiations
An agreement on the protection of the open seas has been reached after more than 15 years of negotiations. – The ship has reached the shore, summed up the chairman…
Member States agree at the UN on a treaty to protect the high seas and its resources
After fifteen years of negotiations, the substantive discussions to reach an international treaty for the protection of the sea beyond national jurisdictions are now over. Once ratified by enough States,…