A small, two-minute survey on whales and whaling For the purposes of a chapter on the cultural role of whales, we are starting a small, two-minute survey on whales and whaling. The chapter will be included in the book Japan's Withdrawal from International Whaling Regulation: Implications for Global Environmental Diplomacy, edited by Dr Nikolas Sellheim …
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The ICRW was opened for signature on 3 December 1946 and entered into force in November 1948. Then also the IWC took up its work. While originally having a membership of 15, currently the IWC counts 88 states as members with Japan having left the organisation in July 2019. Over the last decades, the IWC …
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Currently, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) together with the European Commission are hosting the Third Meeting of the Parties to the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA). As of yesterday, 31 May 2021, around 45 parties and observers each, represented by around 300 participants followed the meeting, which is being held online …
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For the English version, please click here. Im Laufe der letzten Wochen sind Bündnis 90/Die Grünen deutschlandweit in die Schlagzeilen geraten, nachdem Annalena Baerbock — Parteivorsitzende und Kanzlerkandidatin — in einem Interview mit der Bild Am Sonntag erklärte, dass Kurzstreckenflüge massiv besteuert werden sollten, um Klimaneutralität zu erreichen. Der raison d’être dieses Vorstoßes zielte darauf …
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Zur deutschen Version, bitte hier klicken. Over the last week or so, the German Green Party made headlines when Annalena Baerbock - head of the Green Party - declared in an interview with the Bild am Sonntag, that short-distance flights should be taxed massively in order to reach climate neutrality. The raison d'être of this …
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Dear followers after a long break, which was due to outside forces, I will resume this blog and provide you with my view on current developments in international environmental law, the rights of indigenous peoples and local populations or on environmental politics. In addition to the international dimension, I will also include a German perspective …
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Image by Bill Kasman from Pixabay. Disclaimer: This post has originally been published for Polar Connection. Introduction The recently released Scottish Arctic Policy Framework provides significant insight into the parallel challenges and opportunities that both Scotland and the Arctic region face. In this post, I will focus on the role of local (rural) communities. In the …
On 22 March 2019, the local Finnish news outlet Yle Lahti published a little feature about me. (original here). A few days later, a second local Finnish newspaper, Uusi Lahti, used this feature in a satirical cartoon in its printed version. This is a translation of the feature and a translation as well as context …
Along with my wonderful co-editors Yulia Zaika and Ilan Kelman, our book Arctic Triumph: Northern Innovation and Persistence has finally seen the light of day. The book is a compilation of different 'stories' from the Arctic in which not the disaster narrative prevails, but which shows that also positive developments are taking place, despite the …
A recent estimate of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) places 11.9% of all species endemic to Finland in the category of 'threatened' (IUCN Red List categories VU, EN, CR), which marks an increase of 1.4% since the last assessment carried out in 2009. The report - which at the time of writing is not available …
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