Strengthening the Stewardship of the Sargasso Sea
In honor of David Freestone, Brill has published "Frontiers in International Environmental Law: Ocean and Climate Challenges": a collection of essays exploring how law and legal scholarship has responded to some of the most important oceans and climate governance challenges of our time. In the chapter entitled "Strengthening the Stewardship of the Sargasso Sea," Ambassador Balton, Senior Fellow, Polar Institute, Wilson Center, examines several models to strengthen stewardship of the Sargasso Sea, each entailing a binding international agreement to reestablish the Sargasso Sea Commission.
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"Strengthening the Stewardship of the Sargasso Sea" can be downloaded below. The full publication can be purchased at this link.
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Ambassador David Balton
Global Risk and Resilience Program
The Global Risk and Resilience Program (GRRP) seeks to support the development of inclusive, resilient networks in local communities facing global change. By providing a platform for sharing lessons, mapping knowledge, and linking people and ideas, GRRP and its affiliated programs empower policymakers, practitioners, and community members to participate in the global dialogue on sustainability and resilience. Empowered communities are better able to develop flexible, diverse, and equitable networks of resilience that can improve their health, preserve their natural resources, and build peace between people in a changing world. Read more
Polar Institute
Since its inception in 2017, the Polar Institute has become a premier forum for discussion and policy analysis of Arctic and Antarctic issues, and is known in Washington, DC and elsewhere as the Arctic Public Square. The Institute holistically studies the central policy issues facing these regions—with an emphasis on Arctic governance, climate change, economic development, scientific research, security, and Indigenous communities—and communicates trusted analysis to policymakers and other stakeholders. Read more
