Essays about: "maritime environmental legislation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words maritime environmental legislation.

1. 1. Is the Shipping industry still Sulfuring? - A study of compliance factors from the IMO 2020 sulfur cap

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

   Author : Denise Bell Knudsen; [2021]
   Keywords : Marpol; IMO; Imo 2020 sulfur cap; compliance; implementation; enforcement; legal certainty; maritime environmental legislation; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This paper explores different aspects of maritime environmental legislation with the goal of identifying the influencing factors associated with achieving compliance with international maritime environmental legislation. International shipping is often considered the most environmentally friendly form of transport, and while this is true, it is still a significant contributor to global warming and climate change. READ MORE

3. 2. Geographical and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic Legal Regime: Towards a Comprehensive Legal Order for Balancing Environmental Governance and International Trade & Commerce Interests

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Tafsir Matin; [2012]
   Keywords : Soft law; Hard law; Arctic Council; strict liability; absolute liability; zero-discharge policy; Commercial implications; Geographical impacts; Environmental impacts; Climate Change; Arctic States; Intercross; Balancing interests; New legal regime; Multilateral agreements; Joint contingency plans; Arctic national legislations; International Conventions.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The thesis aims at supplementing a critique of the existing international instruments, regional responses and national legislation of the Arctic related to marine environmental protection. With this aim in view, the thesis satisfies its objective by proposing a Bipartite “Arctic Council” acting as a conglomeration of the Arctic States and the Flag States with a hybrid “Arctic treaty”, which is an interplay of international and regional response. READ MORE

4. 3. Marine Environmental Protection in the Arctic

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Malin Pålsson; [2008]
   Keywords : Miljörätt; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis is to examine marine environmental protection in the Arctic. This objective has been achieved by analyzing pertinent legal instruments on the global, regional and national level. READ MORE

5. 4. The authority of en route coastal states to alter the itinerary of transboundary shipments of spent nuclear fuel

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Amanda Björk; [2007-09-25T10:55:39Z]
   Keywords : Sjörätt; Maritime law; Europarätt; Miljörätt;

   Abstract : This thesis starts with noting that the rapid globalisation of the late twentieth and the twenty-first century has resulted in a shift from a national to an international level concerning certain issues. Local governments find themselves unable to control the risk of radioactive pollution that vessels traversing their coastline pose. READ MORE

6. 5. The French Ecologic Protection Zone - Developing Marine Environmental Protection in International Law

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Nina Mårtensson; [2004]
   Keywords : Folkrätt; Miljörätt; Sjörätt; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In 2003 France introduced an ecologic protection zone off its Mediterranean coast. In that zone France has jurisdiction regarding environmental protection. READ MORE