The Legal Aspects of Whale Protection and Radioactive Pollution of the World Ocean

Introduction: the issue of the protection of cetaceans is regulated by a fairly large number of universal international treaties, including the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, but despite this, the trend of reducing their numbers continues. Over the past decade, the problem of radioactive waste emissions into the World Ocean has worsened. Purpose: to study the possibility of introducing legal, financial and environmental system tools to increase the cetacean population as the main public good and a mechanism for regulating climate change processes (the circulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and aquatic environment). Methods: the methodological framework for this research is a set of methods of scientific cognition based on the logical, system-structural, comparative, strategic, associative methods and information analysis. Results: the authors’ position reasoned in the work is based on the statistical data from the United Nations, foreign and domestic scientific publications on climate change, pollution of the oceans and whale protection. New solutions for the settlement of these problematic processes are proposed. Conclusion: as a result of the study, the key role of cetaceans in the processes associated with climate change is identified, and the economic benefits of financial support for the programs aimed at increasing the population of these large mammals are determined. The radioactive pollution of the World Ocean has a negative impact on the habitat and the growth of the whale population.