BBNJ Negotiations and Environmental Governance in Antarctica: Sharing Views between Brazil and China

BBNJ Negotiations and Environmental Governance in Antarctica: Sharing Views between Brazil and China

主办/Anfitriões/Co-Hosted by

Wuhan University China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (WHU-CIBOS)

University of Brasilia Natural Resources Law and Sustainable Development Research Group (UnB-GERN)

Online Event

Wuhan (China) / Brasilia (Brazil)

6 May 2021

会议日程/ Programa /Programme

6 May 2021, Thursday

Brasilia 9:00-10:30

Wuhan 20:00-21:30

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83424106639

09:00 – 09:10 / 20:00-20:10 Opening Remarks

Moderator: Alexandre Pereira da Silva (WHU-CIBOS)

Speakers: Márcio Iório Aranha (UnB-NDSR-GERN) and Lingjie Kong (WHU-CIBOS)

09:10 – 10:10 / 20:10-21:10 Main Panel

Speakers:

1 – Otto Spijkers (WHU-CIBOS) – “The formal relationship between the international legally binding instrument (ILBI) on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in ABNJ and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea”

2 – Carina Costa de Oliveira (UnB-GERN) – “The possible contributions of the future BBNJ legally binding instrument to avoid biodiversity litigation”

3 – Jinyuan Su (WHU-Institute of International Law) – “The Adjacency Doctrine in the Negotiation of BBNJ: Creeping Jurisdiction or Legitimate Claim?”

4 – Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau (UnB-GERN) – “Brazilian Strategic Diplomacy for BBNJ and Antarctica”

10:10 – 10:30 / 21:10-21:30 Comments & Questions

Discussants: Lingjie Kong (WHU-CIBOS) and Vinícius Trindade (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil)

List of Speakers and Participants

Alexandre Pereira da Silva

Associate Researcher at Wuhan University China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (WHU-CIBOS). His main research fields are law of the sea and Latin American state practices. He was a visiting post-doctoral scholar at Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University, and associate professor at Law School of Recife, Federal University of Pernambuco. He has published several articles, including in reference journals as Ocean Yearbook, Marine Policy, Ocean & Coastal Management, International Journal of Marine & Coastal Law, Ocean Development & International Law.

Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau

Associate Professor at the International Relations Institute in the University of Brasilia since 2002. Director of the Brasilia Research Center at the Earth System Governance network (ESG, Utrecht) since 2019. Member of the International Studies Association (USA) since 2013. Member of the Brazilian International Relations Association (ABRI) since 2006 and the board since 2017. Research areas: Ocean and polar governance.

Carina Costa de Oliveira

Professor of International and Environmental Law, Law Faculty, University of Brasília, Brazil (http://www.ppgd.unb.br/docentes/docentes-credenciados/70-carina-costa-de-oliveira1). Visiting Scholar at the C-EENRG, University of Cambridge and the University of Adelaide, Australia. PhD in International Law, Panthéon-Assas, France. Coordinator of the Research Group on Law, Natural Resources and Sustainability (UnB-GERN- http://www.gern.ndsr.org/). Organizer of some books on Marine Environment and Law on topics such as: Exploration and exploitation on the coastal zone, on the continental shelf and on the deep seabed (2015 to 2021). Research areas: Public and private international law, environmental law, conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. 

Jinyuan Su

Professor at Wuhan University Institute of International Law, China. His research interests are the law of the sea, international air law, and international space law. Dr. Su’s articles are published on internationally refereed journals such as Chinese Journal of International Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Ocean Development & International Law, and International Journal of Marine & Coastal Law.

Lingjie Kong

Professor of International Law and Associate Dean for Research and International Cooperation at the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies of Wuhan University, Founding Member of the International Water Law Academy (IWLA) of Wuhan University. His legal education includes LLM in international law at Wuhan University Law School, diploma in international law and international relations at the Chinese-American Center of Johns-Hopkins University and Nanjing University, PhD in law at Wuhan University Law School and University of Paris Sud Faculté Jean-Monnet. He was academic visitor to University of Oxford and Utrecht University. His principal research interest lies in peaceful settlement of international disputes, with a focus on the settlement of territorial, transboundary water and maritime disputes. His research areas cover the law and practice of the International Court of Justice, the law of acquisition of territories, the law of international watercourses and the law of the sea. His articles appear on European Journal of Int’l Law, Chinese Journal of Int’l Law, RECIEL and other journals. He was nominated the New Century Talent by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2013.

Márcio Iório Aranha

Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Brasilia School of Law and Dean of the Research Center on Communication Policy, Law, Economics and Technology (CCOM/UnB). He is also the Executive-Director of the University of Brasilia School of Law Center on Law and Regulation (NDSR/FD/UnB).

Otto Spijkers

Professor of International Law at Wuhan University’s China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS) as well as its Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL) and Founding Staff Member of its International Water Law Academy (IWLA). Prior to joining the IWLA of CIBOS, he was Lecturer of Public International Law at Utrecht University, and researcher at the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law. He was a visiting lecturer at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University, Xiamen University’s China International Water Law Programme (China), the Law School of the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) in Shanghai (China), the Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy), and the Association pour la promotion des droits de l'homme en Afrique centrale (APDHAC) of the Université Catholique d’Afrique Centrale (Yaoundé, Cameroon). Previously, he was a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at the University of Leiden. His doctoral dissertation, entitled The United Nations, the Evolution of Global Values and International Law, was published with Intersentia in 2011. He worked as public services coordinator at the Peace Palace Library, and as international consultant and coordinator for the United Nations International Law Fellowship Programme. Otto Spijkers studied the basics of international relations at the University of Sussex. He then studied international law at the University of Amsterdam, New York University School of Law (exchange student), and the Hague Academy of International Law (2009 session). He studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Malta (exchange).  He obtained a Diplôme approfondi de langue française.

Vinícius Trindade

Brazilian Diplomat of the Brazilian Mission at the United Nations in New York. Master’s Degree at the Law Faculty of the University of Brasília.

Wuhan University China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies

Founded in 2007, Wuhan University China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies is a multi-disciplinary research center that aims to deepen understanding of boundary and maritime matters, to facilitate peaceful resolution of boundary and maritime disputes and to enhance exchanges and cooperation across national boundaries, through research, consultancy, teaching and training activities. Its key research areas include land boundary disputes settlement and cross-border cooperation, maritime delimitation, maritime dispute resolution and maritime cooperation, governance of the polar regions and international cooperation, and application of science and technology in delimitation and management of national boundaries.

University of Brasilia Natural Resources Law and Sustainable

Development Research Group

The Research Group on the Law of Natural Resources and Sustainability (Portuguese acronym GERN) is integrated into the Faculty of Law of the University of Brasilia and into the research area entitled “Internalization, Labour and Sustainability”, which focuses on Sustainability, Environment and Human Rights. The group's general goal is to improve the legal analysis of the implementation of sustainable development. This perspective requires the study of the use of public and private legal instruments, as well as national, international and transnational tools. It articulates nationally and internationally, sustainability human rights, environmental law, economic law, law of the sea, civil law, among other objects of concern. In 2010, GERN was officially incorporated to the School of Law Research Center on Law and Regulation.

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