The Weekly Anthropocene, March 8 2023
The High Seas Treaty, agricultural drones, solar peaker plants, sea level rise-predicting lichen, and more!
High Seas Treaty
On March 4, 2023, 193 nations (including the USA, EU, China, and many others) agreed on the language of United Nations High Seas Treaty, a truly epoch-making new legal framework for the protection of those parts of the world ocean outside any one country’s jurisdiction. This is a big deal, changing the legal status of an area that amounts to two-thirds of the ocean and 43% of all of Earth’s surface!)
The High Seas Treaty (here’s the full text) makes possible the creation of marine protected areas (MPAs) on the high seas for the first time in history, as well as establishing a framework for sharing marine genetic resources and a series of high seas-f…
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