The London Convention and Protocol: Adapting to Address the Ocean-Climate Crisis

What is it about?

The international community is confronted with urgent questions relating to the protection of the marine environment and climate change mitigation. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change maintains that carbon dioxide removal together with ongoing reduction of emissions is needed to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 in order to limit warming to 1.5 0C or 2.0 0C. To address this challenge, a number of potential ocean interventions options for enhancing carbon uptake in the ocean environment have been suggested by the scientific community. These include ocean fertilization and carbon capture and storage beneath the seabed in geological structures. _x000D_ This paper explores the regulation of ocean fertilisation and carbon capture and storage beneath the seabed under the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention) and the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Protocol)._x000D_

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