High Seas Treaty: What does it mean for business?

Cecilia Keating
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More than two thirds of the ocean is classified as 'high sea' | Credit: iStock
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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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