Webinaire sur les enjeux de justice bleue du GT EcoSem

La troisième session du webinaire “Blue Justice” organisé dans le cadre du GT ECOSEM en collaboration par l’UMR AMURE et Kiel Marine Science aura lieu le 26 juin 2023 à 14h (heure de Paris). Attention il faut s’inscrire.

With Thomas Leclerc, Lecturer in public law, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UMR AMURE
“Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: a Legal Quest for Equity at Sea?”

The international legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement) has been designed and negotiated, for many years, to constitute a coherent legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of living marine resources of the high seas, the seabed and their subsoil beyond the limits of national jurisdiction. This legal framework aims to propose a new series of legal principles and mechanisms whose integration into the pre-existing conventional, normative and institutional environment appears nevertheless complex.

In the context of the ongoing adoption of this BBNJ Agreement, this webinar propose to present and debate legal perspective regarding the regime of exploration and sustainable use of – living or mineral – resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction, in light of equity considerations.

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The Blue Justice Webinar Series

As a provider of energy, goods and services, and a vector for trade, the ocean is already an essential component of global economic development, and this is expected to increase in the coming decades. This growth of the so-called “blue economy” is associated with the generation of wealth and employment, and changes in ways of life for coastal and maritime people and communities. It also comes with multiple claims on the ocean for food, material and space, and with a growing human footprint and degradation regarding the functioning of marine ecosystems and the contributions to people they support. The ocean is mainly seen as a commodity in the perspective of the “blue economy”, underlining developments since the enlightenment that consider human beings and the (marine) environment as separate entities. These developments raise the questions of how we want to shape or change our human-ocean relations in times of socio-ecological crisis, and address issues of access regulations and liability, as part of policies designed to ensure the sustainability of the blue economy, within and across multiple sectors. A key question in thinking about such regulations is that of equity considerations, and how these can affect the capacity for long-term collective management arrangements and the ocean as common good to be sustained. There is a long research tradition on these questions in the social sciences, which can help inform current debates on how such considerations can best be addressed.

The Blue Justice webinar series aims to establish a scientific forum to present and debate disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and empirical case studies regarding equity at sea. Scholars from a wide range of  perspectives in the social sciences are invited to present work ranging from the review or development of conceptual work to applied research, in short (maximum 25mn) presentations, that are followed by a moderated discussion, the total duration of each webinar being limited to 1 hour.

The webinar is sponsored by the AMURE joint research unit in Brest, Kiel Marine Science and the OMER Research Network.