Now that negotiations for an international treaty aimed at strengthening protection of the oceans have successfully concluded in New York, Pascale Ricard, a specialist in international environmental and maritime law, tells CNRS News about the regulations currently in force and the difficulties in enforcing them, as illustrated by the case of plastic pollution.

Now that negotiations for an international treaty aimed at strengthening protection of the oceans have successfully concluded in New York, Pascale Ricard, a specialist in international environmental and maritime law, tells CNRS News about the regulations currently in force and the difficulties in enforcing them, as illustrated by the case of plastic pollution.