Arctic Environmental Protection: an Analysis based on the 234th Article of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Keru WANG

Ph. D. Candidate of the School of International Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, 100088, CHINA

Abstract: The global warming and the melting of the Arctic ice sheet, which makes it possible for the north to open a shipping route. At the same time, the increase in the number of shipping in the Arctic seas has acce-lerated the process of climate change, which directly affects the living environment of human beings. So the protection of the Arctic marine environment has become an urgent and realistic task. The 234Th article of the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea is the only one in terms of the Arctic, which is of great significance to the protection of the Arctic marine environment. This paper analyzes the development process and content of the 234Th article of the Convention, and puts forward the problems existing in the application of this provision in the Arctic environment protection, as well as the future of the Arctic environmental protection is worthy of reference.

Keywords: International law; International environmental law; Arctic environmental protection; The 234th article of the Convention