Environmental impact assessments in areas beyond national jurisdiction
iddri.org | 19 Feb 2013
The United Nations General Assembly has been debating on the need for an implementing agreement to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Environmental impact assessments are considered as being one of the potential topics for inclusion in a future multilateral agreement.
 Beyond National Jurisdiction | United Nations

David Miliband to head global fight to prevent eco-disaster in oceans
Guardian Unlimited | 09 Feb 2013
An environmental catastrophe with greater economic impact than the global financial crash is occurring on the high seas, according to David Miliband. The former foreign secretary is to lead a new, high-level international effort to end the lawlessness of the oceans, which will be unveiled this week.
 Beyond National Jurisdiction | High Seas | Marine Management

5th Marine Biodiversity Working Group, 7-11 May 2012, UN Headquarters, New York
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) | 15 May 2012
The fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction (the Working Group) convened from Monday, 7 May to Friday, 11 May 2012.
 Beyond National Jurisdiction | Biodiversity | Conservation | United Nations

Fixing Our Broken Oceans (opinion)
project-syndicate.org | 17 Jun 2011
The high seas – the areas of the worlds oceans that lie beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, which extend 200 miles from shore – make up roughly two-thirds of our oceans and 45% of the planets surface. This area, which contains perhaps the largest reservoir of biodiversity left on earth, is exploited by many countries, but managed by no one.
 Beyond National Jurisdiction | Marine Management | United Nations

Europe seeks to protect mid-Atlantic high seas
Reuters | 24 Sep 2010
BERGEN, Norway (Reuters) - European nations agreed on Friday to set up fishing-free zones in remote parts of the Atlantic Ocean in the world's first high seas network of protected areas beyond the control of national governments.
 Atlantic Ocean | Beyond National Jurisdiction | High Seas | Marine Protected Area

Iceland third of way through controvsersial mackerel quota
fishupdate.com | 19 Jul 2010
Iceland has already fished a third of its unilateral and controversial 130,000 ton mackerel quota, it has been revealed.
 Atlantic Ocean | Beyond National Jurisdiction | Fisheries

Subseafloor Sediment In South Pacific Gyre One Of Least Inhabited Places On Earth
ScienceDaily.com | 22 Jun 2009
Oceanographers have found so few organisms beneath the seafloor that it may be the least inhabited sediment ever explored for evidence of life.
 Beyond National Jurisdiction | Biodiversity | High Seas | Seabed