Highlights:
- The Hong Kong Convention on ship recycling remains far from ratification.
- South Asian nations with suspect practices are indifferent to this convention.
- Using European legislation to improve South Asian practices is problematic.
- EU aid to South Asian nations is more likely to encourage desired improvements.
Abstract:
Questionable practices for dismantling end-of-life
ships or ‘ship recycling’ on South Asian countries’ shores have elicited unease
given their dominance of this unevenly regulated global industry. International
efforts to establish enforceable regulations have met with limited success so
far, and yet this limited success may be further eroded as different interests
promote their own preferred arrangements—or ignore them altogether. This paper
focuses on narrowing differences between the European Union and South Asian
ship recycling nations over regulating this trade by sequentially detailing its
economic rationales, environmental regimes and relevant sustainability
principles. These tasks performed, I deductively build a case for an aid-based,
‘demandeur pays’ approach to meaningfully address this impasse after
considering other options to fund improved ship recycling practices in South
Asia.
Keywords:
Ship recycling; Hong Kong Convention; California
effect; Demandeur pays
Author:
Emmanuel Yujuico
University of Asia and the Pacific, School of Law and
Governance, Pearl Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig City 1605, Philippines
Tel.: +63 2 637 0912x323. yujuico@gmail.com
Source: science direct.
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