The London convention and protocol: adapting to address the ocean-climate crisis

The international community is confronted with urgent questions relating to the protection of the marine environment, as well as climate change mitigation. In this vein, ocean interventions, such as ocean fertilisation and carbon capture and sequestration in sub-sea geological formations have gained popularity in order to accelerate the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. The interaction of such technologies with the ocean environment can potentially cause unintended effects beyond sequestration and storage of atmospheric carbon, hence clear regulations, adapting to emerging technologies and based on public international law, are indispensable and to be based on scientific evidence and research.