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State preferences in international negotiations – using the MARIPOLDATAbase to analyze countries’ shifting positioning towards monetary benefit sharing of Marine Genetic Resources in the BBNJ negotiations

17. December 2024 in /by

Developed under the ERC-funded MARIPOLDATA project led by Associate Professor Alice Vadrot, the MARIPOLDATAbase catalogs Collaborative Event Ethnography (CEE) observations spanning the entire BBNJ (Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction) negotiations from 2018 to 2023. It provides comprehensive primary data on actors, alliances, statements, treaty text, positions, networks, concepts, and meeting formats. By offering unprecedented access to […]

Tweeting Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (#BBNJ): the story of a hashtag

23. May 2023 in /by

By Arne Langlet, Paul Dunshirn & Glen Wright Twitter has become a central platform for political [1] and scientific communication [2], offering a unique data source for researching digital communication and discussions between diplomats, stakeholders and scientists. During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital communication may have been particularly important for international negotiation processes such as the […]

A new Marine Biodiversity Treaty in Sight

27. February 2023 in /by

A new Marine Biodiversity Treaty in Sight Marine Biodiversity Negotiations have resumed in New York and negotiators are left with one more week to finalize the new treaty which will govern conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). The MARIPOLDATA Team has been following the proceedings closely. This blog […]

Navigating the marine biodiversity regime complex – How will the BBNJ instrument interact with other organizations?

17. February 2023 in /by

By Arne Langlet and Simon Fellinger This contribution is part of a MARIPOLDATA blog series on current developments and discussions about marine biodiversity negotiations – more specifically, 1) the negotiations towards an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine […]

Marine Issues and Digital Sequence Information at CBD COP15.2: Lessons and implications for the upcoming BBNJ negotiations?

17. February 2023 in /by

By Silvia Ruiz Rodríguez and Paul Dunshirn This contribution is part of a MARIPOLDATA blog series on current developments and discussions about marine biodiversity negotiations – more specifically, 1) the negotiations towards an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of […]

Wait a second… were multilateral negotiations not online before COVID-19? The emergence of digital multilateralism

18. October 2022 in /by

By Silvia Ruiz and Alice Vadrot This blog post has also been published on the website of the Research Platform: Governance of Digital Practices This contribution presents our new paper tackling the online discussions about an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable […]

Too High Hopes for a High Seas Treaty?

12. September 2022 in /by

By Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki, Arne Langlet, Klaudija Cremers (IDDRI), Paul Dunshirn, Silvia Ruiz Rodríguez and Alice Vadrot Negotiations for a legally binding agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) have once more ended without conclusion of an Agreement. The process started in 2004 with the Ad-Hoc […]

Finalizing an Ocean Treaty: Drowning in detail or sailing towards compromise?

22. August 2022 in /by

By Arne Langlet, Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki, Paul Dunshirn, Silvia Ruiz Rodríguez,  Daria Sander and Alice Vadrot After nearly two decades of negotiating a new legally binding agreement to conserve and sustainably use marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ treaty), Parties to the United Nations hope to finalize the treaty text during IGC-5 in […]

‘We are the Ocean’ (Miguel de Serpa Soares, UNDOALOS) – Will highly ambitious statements from the UN Ocean Conference 2022 translate into a highly ambitious BBNJ treaty?

21. July 2022 in /by

UN Ocean Conference 2022 Blog – IDDRI & MARIPOLDATA By: Paul Dunshirn, Arne Langlet, Klaudija Cremers Miguel de Serpa Soares delivering the final remarks of the UN Oceans Conference 2022. Source: own image.   From June 27th to July 1st, the governments of Portugal and Kenya hosted the second UN Oceans Conference (UNOC 2022) in […]