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More than two thirds of the ocean is classified as 'high sea' | Credit: iStock
BusinessGreen explores how plans to create a new network of marine protected areas and introduced a new environmental impact assessment regime for international waters will impact the private sector
Last weekend in New York, countries agreed to the terms of an historic new treaty to protect the biodiversity of the high seas, the vast expanses of ocean that do not fall under any one country's jurisdiction....
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