We talked about the difference between public (for states) and private (for individual) international law. So what happens when an individual does something that states aren't allowed to do?
A California businessman chartered a fishing boat in July, loaded it with 100 tons of iron dust and cruised through Pacific waters off western Canada, spewing his cargo into the sea in an ecological experiment that has outraged scientists and government officials.
Oddly enough, he was testing a way to pull carbon from the atmosphere. The problem is...
Mr. Parker, of Harvard’s Kennedy School, said it appeared that the project had contravened two international agreements on geoengineering, the London Convention on the dumping of wastes at sea and a moratorium declared by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
So can he be punished? I doubt Canada has written those agreements into its domestic law (but I could be wrong), and if its in international waters, what happens?
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