“Baseline Preservation as a Response to Sea-Stage Rise“
Massimo Lando
Ocean Growth & Worldwide Legislation
Printed on-line: January 2025
Summary: To fight the hostile results of climate-change-driven sea-level rise, an rising variety of states have began preserving baselines. On this context, preservation means making baselines everlasting regardless of modifications to the shoreline ensuing from sea-level rise. In 2023, the Worldwide Legislation Fee’s Examine Group on Sea-level rise in relation to worldwide legislation launched its Extra Paper on the affect of sea-level rise on the legislation of the ocean. The Extra Paper targeted on the states’ views regarding the potential for preserving baselines regardless of coastal modifications attributable to sea-level rise. Nonetheless, the Extra Paper didn’t embody a convincing methodological framing of the query of baseline preservation. This text frames this query as one in all customized formation or treaty interpretation, arguing that neither framing would enable one to conclude that constructive worldwide legislation sanctions the preservation of baselines, however that there are viable options de lege ferenda to attain it.
