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The High Seas Treaty Is an Extraordinary Diplomatic Achievement - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Despite complications, the long-debated agreement is grounds for celebration at an otherwise dismal moment in world politics. Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and frameworks to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world. That mission has never been more important, or more challenging. Geopolitical competition, populist nationalism, economic inequality, technological innovation, and a planetary ecological emergency are testing the rules-based international order and complicating collective responses to shared threats. Our mission is to design global solutions to global problems. Last Saturday night, the world took a giant plunge to protect the world’s oceans. After thirty-six straight hours of negotiations, diplomats in New York representing nearly 200 countries endorsed a treaty to protect biodiversity on the high seas—the most significant multilateral environmental convention since the Paris Climat

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