Plastic Pollution of the World’s Oceans as a Legal Problem
ISBN:
978-3-7560-1723-2
Verlag:
Nomos
Land des Verlags:
Deutschland
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.07.2024
Reihe:
Studies in International Law of the Sea and Maritime Law – Internationales Seerecht und Seehandelsrecht
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
226
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The focus is on a possible state obligation to clean up existing plastic pollution of the marine environment. In particular, it is questioned whether protecting the marine environment by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea not only obliges states to take preventive measures but also whether there is an obligation to reverse existing damage to the marine environment. Alternatively, such a restitution obligation is derived from the general rules on state responsibility. For this to be the case, states would first have to have failed to comply with their due diligence obligation to prevent significant environmental damage, and the legal consequences of restitution would not have to be disproportionate.
Schlagwörter
Umweltrecht
environmental law
Seerecht
Sorgfaltspflicht
Staatenverantwortlichkeit
marine protection
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
due diligence obligation
UN-Seerechtsübereinkommen
Reinigungspflicht
plastic pollution
Plastikverschmutzung
Präventivmaßnahmen
Wiederherstellungspflicht
UNCLS
Meereschutz
clean-up obligation
restitution obligation
Behebung von Umweltschäden
Verhinderung von Umweltschäden
prevention of environmental damage
restitution of environmental damage
