Reforming United Nations Ocean Governance

What is it about?

This commentary piece examines a recent, widely discussed proposal to establish an Intergovernmental Panel on Ocean Sustainability (IPOS). While concluding that this panel is a good idea, the commentary suggests that it risks neglecting a necessary project of legal and institutional reform of how the ocean is governed through the international system. The commentary makes concrete suggestions about how this reform project could proceed alongside the proposed IPOS.

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