The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), a non-profit policy research institute based in Paris, has published a short analysis of key legal issues and challenges in marine energy sector.
The paper identifies key legal challenges related to the development of marine energy: international law, environmental impacts, property rights, authorization process, resource management and marine areas.
IDDRI has set out key points:
“The challenges identified in this Issue Brief present a call to action for development of appropriate governance structures for ocean energy technologies. Understanding and addressing the legal challenges will be a major factor in determining whether ocean energy becomes a successful and sustainable commercial-scale industry,” IDDRI has written in the concusion.
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