The sea level rise and its challenges

Version française ici Aris-Georges Marghélis, CDMO, University of Nantes, France Thirty-three years after its conclusion, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains the reference text governing States' relations at sea and to the sea. Inevitably, time raises questions as to UNCLOS' coherence, consistency with new challenges - often unconceivable or unconsidered in 1982 - and infallibility of some of its principles. Among those new challenges are global warming and su..