Colleagues- If you follow ocean and/or biodiversity governance, you're probably aware of the new agreement for "Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction" (BBNJ) which was just finalized last year. Many observers, activists, scholars, and others have been referring to the BBNJ as the "High Seas Treaty." *Myself and Fuad Bateh <https://conferences.wmu.se/londonstockholm50/fuad-bateh/> argue in a new op-ed at Mongabay <https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/high-seas-treaty-name-is-inaccurate-and-should-center-biodiversity-commentary/> that calling the BBNJ the "High Seas Treaty" is inaccurate, misleading, and damaging to the interests of the Global South*.
Apologies for the self-promotion, but the community hasn't settled on a popular and lasting name for this new treaty. We are making a collective choice, every time we discuss the new agreement. So it's really important that we think carefully about how we describe the treaty. Thanks for your consideration, *Elizabeth Mendenhall, PhD* Associate Professor; Graduate Program Director Department of Marine Affairs University of Rhode Island elizabeth-mendenhall.com Check out my recent publications on the BBNJ treaty <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X23002130>, marine plastic pollution <http://www.elizabeth-mendenhall.com/uploads/6/3/2/3/63236261/mendenhall_2023_making_the_most_of_what_we_already_have_activating_unclos.pdf>, and military nuclear transit <https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/98/3/819/6562050>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CAD9tVvGoP1SShU9f0RsnrA0onOxo%2BrxU_QQJ7aTLQVFwGgJH_g%40mail.gmail.com.
