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LEGAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION FROM RECYCLING OF VESSELS IN INDIA

Abstract: India conducts the world’s largest ship-recycling operation in Alang, Gujarat.  Nearly 153 ship-breaking yards line a 10 kilometre long coastal stretch in Bhavnagar district, where End of Life (EOL) vessels are brought to be dismantled.…

INDIA’s RESPONSE TO MARINE OIL SPILLS: AN EVALUATION

Climate Change and Marine Oil Spills Climate change is the greatest challenge that humanity is facing — a challenge that would be significantly greater had it not been for our oceans, which play a crucial ameliorating role when it comes…
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LEGACIES & LEARNINGS: A CASE STUDY OF OIL SPILLS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION

Oil spills cause severe distress to marine and coastal ecosystems and impair the livelihoods and health of people who are dependent on these ecosystems.  These impacts have been studied and documented for decades, which has led to more effective…
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WIDENING THE APERTURE: “CLIMATE CHANGE AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES INCREASING CHALLENGES TO US NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH 2040”

A review of National Intelligence Council, “Climate Change and International Responses Increasing Challenges to US National Security Through 2040” National Intelligence Estimate, NIC-NIE-2021-10030-A (2021) The collective failure of States…

KUNMING COP15: MAPPING LINKAGES BETWEEN BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

The birth of the current climate change regime was a product of a series of events that unfolded with the end of the Cold War and the simultaneous rise of the era of globalisation.  On the heels of an evolving understanding of the threat of…
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CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONS FOR HOLISTIC MARITIME SECURITY IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION

The scientific consensus built over the past few decades unequivocally states that climate change is real, and it is occurring at an accelerating rate.  It is being caused primarily by human activities, and we are already experiencing its impacts…

A CRITIQUE OF THE REPORT ON “A SECURITY THREAT ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: HOW LIKELY WARMING SCENARIOS INDICATE A CATASTROPHIC SECURITY FUTURE” 

Kate Guy et al, Product of the National Security, Military, and Intelligence Panel on Climate Change, eds. Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werell. (Washington, DC: The Centre for Climate and Security, an Institute of the Council on Strategic Risks,…
Climate-change: An Indian and An Israeli Perspective

NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADAPTIVE GEOSTRATEGIES TO ADDRESS CLIMATE-CHANGE: AN INDIAN AND AN ISRAELI PERSPECTIVE

Abstract The issue of climate change continues to hog the lime-light. Even though there is no unanimity in the scientific community about the rate at which climate change is actually occurring, there is no doubt that climate change is actually…
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DECODING MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN INDIA – PART 2:   CHALLENGES IN MARINE CONSERVATION IN THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE AND TRANSBOUNDARY AREAS

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982, entitles every coastal or island State to a varying degree of access and jurisdiction over its coastal seas.  A belt of 12 nautical miles (nm) breadth, measured to seaward from…
STEMMING THE RISING TIDE — OCEANS AND THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE Saurabh ThakurPHOTO CREDITS- Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket/Getty Images

STEMMING THE RISING TIDE — OCEANS AND THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

The crisis of anthropogenic climate change has been framed in myriad ways, often oscillating between a wide array of definitions, political ideologies, economic pathways, and moral principles.  Translating such a diverse and polarised debate…
The Fukushima Conundrum: Ocean Disposal of Nuclear Waste Saurabh Thakur

THE FUKUSHIMA CONUNDRUM: OCEAN DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WASTE

The Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Yoshihide Suga, recently made public a plan to discharge 1.25 million tonnes of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, describing it as his country’s “most realistic…
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DECODING MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN INDIA – PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS

In the current era of the Anthropocene, humans have become the major driver for planetary changes in the physical, chemical and biological properties of the air, land and the ocean.  The exact year/ decade of the beginning of this epoch is…

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