Implementation of the International Laws, Policies and Conventions to Protect the World’s Marine Biodiversity and Aquatic Habitat from Pollution in an Eco-friendly and Healthy Environment
Life itself arose from the oceans.The ocean is vast and covers 140 million square miles, some 72 per cent of the Earth's surface.The ocean has always been an important source of food for the life it helped generate, and from earliest recorded history, it has also served trade and commerce, adventure and discovery.It has separated and brought people together.The development of the modern law of the sea and the growing concern for the condition of the oceans have given rise to a number of legal regimes addressing problems of the marine environment including pollution, loss of biodiversity, protection of endangered species, and marine mammals.Repetitively, marine pollution occurred in world's ocean can harm by making them less diverse and less able to sustain life.This matter is persisting and strategies have been established at both the national and global standpoints to deal with it.We will look at the efficiency of these legal instruments and some of the encounters in their execution.At the beginning with the historical development of marine pollution laws, we demonists how they evolved from national laws with territorial jurisdictions only to worldwide resolutions, viz., The United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) or The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL).The international laws of the sea provide a foundation for continuing progress.The future of marine conservation, however, depends upon the ability and willingness of states to cooperate in these common objectives and the capacity of individual states to prescribe and enforce their own marine conservation laws.The paper concludes by looking into the future trends on horizon.Furthermore, challenges for marine protection include how to draw more on technology and science of regulation, and how tomorrow 's regulations must be tailored to meet the future problems.
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-05-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17758/uruae26.ua0525212
- Primary Topic
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00