Protect not to destroy: Madrid Protocol against mineral exploration in Antarctica
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CRAMRA, Madrid Protocol, Antarctic Treaty System.Abstract
This article aims to understand the leading reasons to the failure of the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activity (CRAMRA) and the rise of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, an international agreement containing advanced mechanisms to protect the Antarctic environment. The Purpose of CRAMRA was to regulate Antarctic mineral resources exploration and explotation, while the environmental protocol establishes the Antarctic continent as natural reserve devoted do peace and science, and prohibits all activities relating to Antarctic mineral resources, except for scientific research for at least 50 years. The environmental protocol filled a gap of the Antarctic Treaty System after the non ratification of CRAMRA. Literature review of relevant sources in the field was the research method used in this paperDownloads
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