Subjects:

Environmental Law

Contents:

Foreword

Sir Michael Wood

Introduction

Professor Gillian Triggs and Anna Riddell

The Antarctic Treaty System: Legal and Environmental Issues

Future Challenges for the Antarctic Treaty System

Marie Jacobsson

The Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty: Achievements and Weaknesses Three Years After its Establishment

Patrizia Vigni

IUU Fishing in the Southern Ocean: Challenge and Response

Stuart Kaye

The Emerging Legal Regime for Navigation through Ice-Infested Antarctic

Christopher Joyner

Some Current Issues Facing the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)

Alan Brown

Responding to Environmental Damage in Antarctica

Louise de La Fayette

Antarctic Tourism Policy-Making: Current Challenges and Future Prospects

Debra Enzenbacher

Vessel-Sourced Pollution in the Southern Ocean: Benefits and Shortcomings of Regional Regulation

Ivana Zovko

The Antarctic Treaty 1959

Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Flora and Fauna 1964

Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals 1972

Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty 1991

Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources 1982

The Liability Annex 2005 (Annex VI to the Protocol on Environmental Protection)

Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities 1988

International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling 1946

ATCM XXIX Report, and Measures, Decisions and Resolutions

House of Lords Debate on the International Polar Year 2007–

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Since its inception almost 50 years ago, the Antarctic Treaty System has evolved to provide a stable and remarkably effective regime for management of the coldest, driest and windiest continent on earth. New challenges to this legal regime are now posed by contemporary problems such as climate change, tourism, and fishing and whaling in the Southern Ocean. For State Parties to the web of treaties that make up the Antarctic system of governance, the 21st century brings new demands for environmental protection while ensuring reasonable access for scientists and tourists alike.

The papers in this collection were presented at a conference organized by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to coincide with the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties held in Edinburgh in June 2006. The authors, experienced Antarctic ‘watchers’, discuss their views on:-

• Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
• Vessel-based pollution
• Navigation through ice-covered waters
• Antarctic Treaty Secretariat
• Liability of operators and their States for environmental damage
• Tourism

Included with these scholarly papers are all the international agreements that make up the Antarctic Treaty System along with the Measures, Decisions and Resolutions of the Twenty-Ninth Consultative Party Meeting and the Edinburgh Declaration supporting the scientific research of the forthcoming International Polar Year starting in March 2007.

The collection provides an accessible analysis of the legal and environmental issues for Antarctica in the first decade of the 21st century for government officials and advisors, scholars, students, legal practitioners and scientists.