{"id":251454,"date":"2024-05-21T18:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/international-court-backs-need-to-protect-oceans-and-island-nations-from-climate-impacts\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T21:32:52","slug":"international-court-backs-need-to-protect-oceans-and-island-nations-from-climate-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/international-court-backs-need-to-protect-oceans-and-island-nations-from-climate-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"International Court Backs Need to Protect Oceans and Island Nations from Climate Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In a historic development, a recent opinion by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) recognizes global warming emissions as a marine pollutant. While nonbinding, the unanimous advisory opinion offers important support for small island nations facing climate impacts and raises the bar for other nations to reduce their global warming emissions to protect the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Background<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Back in December, 2022, a group of small island nations, under the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, submitted a request to the tribunal (pictured above in Hamburg, Germany). They sought to clarify the obligations of state parties under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), specifically regarding their duties to prevent, reduce, and control pollution of the marine environment in the context of climate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/delta-merner\/international-court-backs-need-to-protect-oceans-and-island-nations-from-climate-impacts\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at blog.ucsusa.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic development, a recent opinion by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) recognizes global warming emissions as a marine pollutant. While nonbinding, the unanimous advisory opinion offers important support for small island nations facing climate impacts and raises the bar for other nations to reduce their global warming emissions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":251455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Court Backs Need to Protect Oceans and Island Nations from Climate Impacts - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/delta-merner\/international-court-backs-need-to-protect-oceans-and-island-nations-from-climate-impacts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Court Backs Need to Protect Oceans and Island Nations from Climate Impacts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a historic development, a recent opinion by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) recognizes global warming emissions as a marine pollutant. 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