8.9B Global Environmental Laws

• • IGOs have been involved in developing laws for managing oceans and international rivers, as well as monitoring the state of the environment
• UN Convention on the Law of the Sea:

  • It is an international agreement that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities
  • a comprehensive regime of law and order in the world's oceans and seas, addressing issues such as territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, continental shelf, high seas, marine environment, marine scientific research, and dispute settlement
  • It also manages the rights of 42 land-locked states
  •  considered a critical part of the rules-based international system
• Helsinki Water Convention rules:

  • An international guideline regulating how rivers and their connected groundwaters that cross national boundaries may be used, adopted
  • Provides protection against water pollution and sets recommendations for resolving disputes over usage 
  • Applies to all drainage basins that cross national boundaries, except where other agreement between bordering nations exists