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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

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 Climate Agreement of 2015. Although barely known to the public, the agreement—colloquially known as the BBNJ treaty, because it addresses biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction—is the culmination of nearly twenty years of diplomacy. When formally ratified by UN member…

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