东加勒比海海平面上升和海洋划界: 一种比较方法

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东加勒比海海平面上升和海洋划界: 一种比较方法

作者简介

罗斯玛丽·卡多根

Rosemarie Cadogan

英联邦秘书处前法律和政策分析师

声明

本文原载于《美国大学国际法评论》（American Uniersity International Law Review），题目为“东加勒比海海平面上升和海洋划界: 一种比较方法”（Sea Level Rise and Maritime Delimitation in the Eastern Caribbean: A Comparative Approach）。本文谨代表作者立场，不代表平台和译者观点。限于篇幅本文仅翻译部分内容，如需获取全文，请点击文末“阅读原文”下载获取。

概要

谢谢，主持人。让我首先感谢今天的组织者邀请我参加本次会议，并向大家表达我的感激之情。正如标题所示，我将研究东加勒比海的海平面上升和海洋划界，并将其与太平洋-南太平洋地区进行比较。我认为所有协议都已得到遵守，并且为了节省时间，我将直接进入我的主要内容，但今天表达的观点仅代表我自己，尽管我参与了今天提到的几项协议。

我将研究这两个地区的海洋边界划定和海平面上升，我已经将我的原籍国圭亚那包括在内，主要是因为它在政治上与加勒比海联系在一起，并且因为低海岸平原在高潮时位于海平面以下0.5到1米之间，因此在这种情况下特别相关。

我将讨论关于海平面上升对东加勒比地区边界划界影响的三个问题，不是对各国的影响，而是边界划界的影响，将其与对南太平洋小岛屿发展中国家或太平洋小岛屿发展中国家的影响进行比较，并推广到国际法的发展。然后，我将迅速提到东加勒比海边界划界可能产生的影响。

就其本质而言，它不是一个独立的活动。我相信每个人都认识到这一点。在加勒比地区，正如一些发言人所指出的，这是一个多层次嵌套的区域治理框架，其联系不仅影响边界，还影响经济制度，以及与主权、与海洋的联系和定居模式相关的政治和社会文化背景。你经常会发现，在这些岛屿上，在一个岛屿和另一个岛屿之间，两边都有亲戚的人；你正在处理一个在划定边界上的政治分歧，但它也跨越了各个社区，这在加勒比地区尤其强大。

Summary

Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Let me just start by thanking the organizers today for having me on the program, and I want to extend to everyone mygratitude for having me here today. I am going to look at, as the title suggests, sea level rise and maritime delimitation in the Eastern Caribbean, and I am going to take a comparative approach as I compare it with the Pacific–South Pacific region. I am going to take it that all protocols have been observed, and, in the interest of time, I will go straight through to mypresentation with the one caveat that the views expressed today are mine only, despite my involvement in several of the agreements that I mention today. 

I am going to look at maritime boundary delimitation and sea level rise in these two regions, and I have included Guyana, in South America, my country of origin, mainly because it is politically linked to the Caribbean, and because the low coastal plain is situated between 0.5 to one meter below sea level at high tide, so it is particularly relevant in that situation.

I am going to look at three questions around the impact of sea level rise on boundary delimitation in the Eastern Caribbean, not so much the impacts on the States, but the impacts of boundary delimitation, comparing it with the impacts on South Pacific SIDS, or PSIDS, and by extension the development of international law. Then I will quickly mention likely future implications for sea level rise on boundary delimitation in the Eastern Caribbean. 

By its very nature, it is not a standalone activity. I am sure everyone appreciates that. In the Caribbean, as some commentators have noted, it is a multi-level nested regional governance framework with linkages that not only affect boundaries but also economic regimes, as well as political and socio-cultural contexts associated with sovereignty, linkages to the sea, and settlement patterns. Quite often you find in these islands, between one island and another, people with relatives on either side; you are dealing with a political division in delimiting boundaries, but it also goes across communities, which is particularly strong in the Caribbean.

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