Antarctica: Getting Multilateralism Right

By Pascal Lamy This week, the Paris Peace Forum convenes, marking the 100 year anniversary since the end of World War I. It highlights the importance of global cooperation, peace, and good governance for a threatened planet. Antarctica2020- an initiative that brings together a group of thought-leaders from around the world working to secure the strong protection of 7 million …

WILL CHINA CAST ITS VOTE FOR ANTARCTICA, AND THE PLANET?

Sylvia Earle – Beijing could be the key to unlocking a positive outcome at CCAMLR, writes Sylvia Earle Source: China Dialogue Decisions taken this week by just 24 nations and the EU could determine the future of the world’s greatest natural treasure: Antarctica, and more specifically the Southern Ocean which encircles it. The land, ice and waters of Antarctica are the …

WILL WE PROTECT ANTARCTICA OR EXPLOIT IT?

José María Figueres – A special multination commission should approve proposals for three marine sanctuaries in the continent’s bountiful seas. Antarctica’s Southern Ocean has been exploited for its teeming bounty, from the top of its food chain to the bottom, for more than 200 years. Seal hunters arrived there in the late 1700s and by 1825 fur seals were nearing extinction. Hunters …