{"id":3803,"date":"2023-03-06T03:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:01:16","slug":"what-is-the-united-nations-high-seas-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-united-nations-high-seas-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the United Nations High Seas Treaty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About UN High Seas Treaty:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>first-ever treaty to protect<\/strong> the world&#8217;s <strong>oceans that lie outside national boundaries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the \u2018<strong>Paris Agreement for the Ocean<\/strong>.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>legally binding treaty<\/strong> to protect marine life in international waters.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>aims to place 30% of the seas into protected areas by 2030 <\/strong>(a pledge made by countries at the UN biodiversity conference in 2022).<\/li>\n<li>It will <strong>provide a legal framework for establishing vast marine protected areas<\/strong> <strong>(MPAs)<\/strong> to protect against the loss of wildlife and <strong>share out the genetic resources of the high seas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>also<\/strong> <strong>covers environmental assessments<\/strong> to evaluate the potential damage of commercial activities, such as deep-sea mining.<\/li>\n<li>It will <strong>establish a conference of the parties (CoP)<\/strong> that will <strong>meet periodically<\/strong> and <strong>enable member states to be held to account on issues such as governance and biodiversity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The treaty <strong>also includes a pledge by signatories to share ocean resources.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The treaty is <strong>built on the legacy of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),<\/strong> which is the <strong>last international agreement on ocean protection<\/strong>, signed 40 years ago in 1982. UNCLOS established an area called the high seas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are High Seas?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The high seas <strong>begin at the border of countries\u2019 exclusive economic zones<\/strong>, which extend up to 370km (200 nautical miles) from coastlines.<\/li>\n<li>Beyond that point, the seas are <strong>under the jurisdiction of no country<\/strong>, and <strong>all countries have a right to fish, ship, and do research.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They make up <strong>more than 60% of the world\u2019s oceans by surface area.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Activities on the high seas are often unregulated<\/strong> and insufficiently monitored, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?<\/h3>\n<p>Exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as defined under the UNCLOS, is an area of the ocean extending up to 200 nautical miles (370 km) immediately offshore from a country\u2019s land coast in which that country retains exclusive rights to the exploration and exploitation of natural resources<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/nations-reach-accord-to-protect-marine-life-on-high-seas\/article66584851.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN High Seas Treaty is the first-ever treaty to protect the world&#8217;s oceans that lie outside national boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}