L' autorité internationale des fonds marins :
à la hauteur du défi environnemental du xxie siècle?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26443/law.v69i3.1574Abstract
“All rights in the resources of the Area are vested in mankind as a whole, on whose behalf the Authority shall act.” Although the Interna-tional Seabed Authority (ISA) has mainly fo-cused on developing rules and regulations re-garding the exploration and exploitation of the resources of the Area—the seabed beyond the limits of national jurisdiction—it also adopts rules for its protection and conservation. This paper focuses on analyzing the basis for said protection and conservation rules, from the conceptualization of the common heritage of mankind to the modification of this concept in the United Nations’ 1994 Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Na-tions Convention on the Law of the Sea. It then turns to the recent evolution of the ISA’s envi-ronmental mandate, and discusses its ambiva-lence, highlighting the gap between an increas-ingly environmentalist discourse on the one hand and a far more limited engagement prac-tice on the other.
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