Category: Marines from all over the world

UN-Abkommen zum Schutz der Weltmeere

UN-Abkommen zum Schutz der Weltmeere

Posted by | 21. Apr 2023 | , , | 0

Nach jahrzehntelangen Verhandlungen haben sich die Staaten der Welt auf den Schutz der Meere geeinigt. Trotz der voranschreitenden Umweltschäden wird die Ratifizierung noch Jahre dauern. Am 4. März haben sich in New York rund 160 UN-Mitgliedstaaten zum ersten Mal auf ein Abkommen zum Schutz der Biodiversität auf Hoher See geeinigt. In den vorangegangenen 20 Jahren gab es 26 UN-Umwelt- und Klimakonferenzen, um völkerrechtlich verbindliche Abkommen und verpflichtende Schritte für den Klima- und Meeresschutz zu erreichen. Bislang konnten jedoch keine rechtlich verbindlichen Schutzregeln vereinbart werden. So scheiterten auf der UN-Umweltkonferenz im März 2019 in Nairobi die Bemühungen, durch verbindliche Reduktionsziele...

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Sailing training ship Palinuro: Little sister under sail

Sailing training ship Palinuro: Little sister under sail

Posted by | 20 Apr 2023 | , , , | 0

The keel of the Italian sail training ship Palinuro was laid 90 years ago Some fishing vessels have an astonishing history. One of them is the Italian Navy's Palinuro, a schooner or barquentine. Launched in 1933 at the Anciens Chantiers Dubigeon shipyard in Nantes, France, and launched the following year under the name Commandant Louis Richard, she drove her client Joseph Briand, President of the French Société des Pècheries Malouines, into bankruptcy before she could even set sail on her first mission. Briand sold the steel three-master together with her sister ship Lieutenant René Guillon to the Pècheries du Labrador in Saint-Malo. Here...

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Joining NATO: a force not to be underestimated

Joining NATO: a force not to be underestimated

Posted by | 18 Apr 2023 | , , , , | 0

For decades, Sweden and Finland were proud of their neutrality. Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine led to a radical rethink. Less than three months after the start of the Russian invasion, the two EU states applied to join NATO. With an area of 338,472 square kilometres, the Republic of Finland is slightly smaller than the Federal Republic of Germany. However, only 5.5 million people live in this Nordic country. The majority of the Finnish population lives in the catchment areas of the major cities of Helsinki, Turku, Oulu and Tampere, while the central and northern parts of the country are very sparsely populated. Finland has...

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Piracy: Sustainable security

Piracy: Sustainable security

Posted by | 17 Apr 2023 | , , , | 0

Far-reaching measures are needed to permanently free sea areas such as the Gulf of Guinea from the threat of piracy. The concept of maritime security sector reform with the establishment of sustainable security governance promises success. Piracy is still often associated with pirates from films and television sailing under the banner of Jolly Rogers. However, the threat of piracy and armed robbery is still a real risk to shipping and maritime safety in the 21st century. According to Article 101 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), such piracy includes "(a) any unlawful act of violence or deprivation of liberty or any act of plunder,...

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Explosion hazard in the Pacific

Explosion hazard in the Pacific

Posted by | 14 Apr 2023 | , , , , | 0

China's power ambitions in the Pacific region are growing ever stronger. The United States and its allies are trying to counter this. This increases the risk of armed conflict. While the Ukraine war is currently the focus of media coverage in Europe, another area of crisis and tension has developed at the other end of the world, in South-East Asia. China's rise to naval power and its aggressive, primarily maritime expansionist ambitions, as well as North Korea's increasingly provocative missile and nuclear tests, have shaped security policy in the Indo-Pacific and transformed it into an area of crisis and tension with growing potential for military escalation. At the same time, China is colliding with the regulatory and security policy ideas of the...

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