The Role of the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility in the Implementation of the Regime of the Convention on the Law of the Sea

The Law of the Sea: Progress and Prospects

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Freestone, David ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Financing; Fish stocks agreement; Fisheries management; Global environment facility; International organisations; Marine pollution; Pollution control; United Nations Convention; World Bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920064969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199299614.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

References (7)

1. see J D Kingham and D M McRae, 'Competent International Organizations and the Law of the Sea' (1979) 3 Marine Policy 106-132;
2. see also E Miles, 'On the Roles of International Organizations in the New Ocean Regime' in C Park (ed), The Law of the Sea in the 1980s (The Law of the Sea Institute, Honolulu 1983) 383-445;
3. T Treves, 'The Role of Universal International Organisations in Implementing the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention' in A H A Soons (ed), Implementation of the Law of the Sea Convention through International Institutions (The Law of the Sea Institute, Honolulu 1990) 16-37.
4. See also D Freestone and A G Oude Elferink, 'Flexibility and Innovation in the Law of the Sea: Will the LOS Convention amendment procedures ever be used?' in A G Oude Elferink (ed), Stability and Change in the Law of the Sea: The Role of the LOS Convention (Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden 2005) 163-216.
5. See R Wade, 'Greening the Bank: The Struggle over the Environment, 1970-1995' in D Kapur, J P Lewis and R Webb (eds), The World Bank: Its First Half Century (Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC 1997);
6. D Freestone, 'International Financial Institutions and the Marine Environment: A view from the World Bank' in M H Nordquist, J Norton Moore and S Mahmoudi (eds), The Stockholm Declaration and Law of the Marine Environment (Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2003) 119-134.
7. See R Dölzer, Implications of Agenda 21 and UNCLOS for International Waters as a GEF Focal Area, GEF Working Paper (Washington DC 1998) who argues that the GEF should be seen as a financing mechanism for the 1982 LOSC.