THE ARAL SEA: A GLOBAL SOLUTION TO A REGIONAL PROBLEM

Submitted by redaktor on Sun, 10/01/2023 - 17:06

Year: 
2023

Article:

Issue: 
2

UDC: 
341
DOI: 
10.34076/22196838_2023_2_32
Author(s): 

Kudinov Aleksey

Research officer, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Moscow), candidate of legal sciences, ORCID: 0000-0001-9223-7678, e-mail: kudinov-as@mail.ru.

Author(s): 
Kudinov Aleksey
Abstract: 

The article is devoted to the analysis of four theories about the reasons for an ecological disaster in the Aral Sea Basin: uncontrolled irrigation, natural life cycles of the Aral Sea, water overflow from the Aral Sea to the Caspian Sea through karst cavities, and global warming. The author concludes that it is necessary to assess these factors as a whole and take into account the factor of global warming to finance the Aral Sea restoration through international financial and legal mechanisms designed to combat climate change. Institutional and legal frameworks for solving the Aral Sea problem are considered. There are recommendations for the Central Asian states that would help them to make this problem part of the global climate agenda.

Key words: 

the Aral Sea, ecology, international environmental law, global warming, climate change, UN Climate Change Conference, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP27

For citation: 

Kudinov A. (2023) The Aral Sea: A global solution to a regional problem. In Elektronnoe prilozhenie k «Rossiiskomu yuridicheskomu zhurnalu», no. 2, pp. 32–39, DOI: http://doi.org/ 10.34076/22196838_2023_2_32.

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Sunday, 01.10.2023

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