【讲座预告】Regime Divergence or Convergence? Law of the Sea and Climate Change

主题：Regime Divergence or Convergence? Law of the Sea and Climate Change

时间：12月11日（周五）下午3:00 - 4:30 （北京时间）

主持人：Stephen Minas，北京大学国际法学院副教授

主讲人：Dr. Nilüfer Oral, Director of the Centre of International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore

Zoom会议链接：https://stl-pku.zoom.com.cn/j/61869376902?pwd=MGNPSStwcnkwamllNHlIbW5xQWZzdz09

Zoom会议ID：618 6937 6902; 会议密码：964577

讲座语言：英文

Abstract

When the 1982 United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea was adopted, climate change was not an issue of concern for the international community. Consequently, the Convention does not make mention to climate change or its consequences. When the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted a decade later, the adverse consequences of climate change on the ocean and marine environment were not fully understood. However, in recent years scientists have discovered that climate change is having significant adverse impacts on the ocean, such as ocean warming, deoxygenation, chemistry change, ocean acidification and sea level rise.

This lecture will examine the existing frameworks in relation to protection of the marine environment under the 1982 UNCLOS and climate change under the 1992 UNFCCC regime. The lecture will identify the gaps within each regime, the gaps between the two regimes and how synergies may be developed to address the important climate risks to the health of the ocean.

嘉宾简介

Nilüfer Oral is Director of the Centre of International Law (CIL) at the National University of Singapore and is a member of the law faculty at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She is a member of the UN International Law Commission and Co-chair of the Study Group on Sea-level rise in relation to international law. She has advised the Turkish Foreign Ministry on matters related to the law of the sea. She served as climate change negotiator for the Turkish Ministry (2009 – 2016). She has also appeared before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Dr. Oral is a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at Berkeley Law (University of California Law Berkeley); Senior Fellow of the National University of Singapore Law School; and Honorary Research Fellow at University of Dundee. Dr. Oral was elected to the Council of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (2012-2016) and was elected as Chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (2014-2017). She is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the World Commission on Environmental Law.

Dr. Oral is the series editor for the International Straits of the World publications (Brill); member of the Board of Editors of the European Society of International Law Series; Board of Editors of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law; Associate Editor of the Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea (Brill); and International Advisory Board, Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (Brill). She has published numerous articles edited several books, and has spoken at many international conferences.