The level of the World Ocean and International Law

Abstract

As a result of the work of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, which adopted the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a single international legal order was established in the oceans covering 2/3 of our planet and approved by virtually all States. An important part of it is the procedure for allocating from the common space of the World Ocean part of the waters and the bottom, lawfully subject to the jurisdiction of coastal States. With the warming of the climate on Earth, the water level of the World's oceans began to rise, and the established limits of the zones of jurisdiction are violated. Currently, two ideas have been formed for determining the limits of national jurisdiction: to fix the baseline for measuring zones of jurisdiction; to establish a fixed external limit of such zones. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea is universally recognized and is not disputed by anyone.