🔆 India Unlikely to Ratify ‘High Seas Treaty’ (BBNJ)

📍 Key Update
✅ India signed the BBNJ (High Seas Treaty) in 2024, but ratification is pending.
✅ Delay due to legal amendments (e.g. Biological Diversity Act).

📍 Global Status
✅ 49 countries have ratified it (as of June 10); 60 required for legal enforcement.

📍 Contentious Issues
✅ Treaty covers resources beyond EEZ, not under any country’s jurisdiction.
✅ India seeks clarity on equitable economic benefit sharing before ratifying.

UPSC Mapping Prelims Mains

🔆 India Unlikely to Ratify ‘High Seas Treaty’ (BBNJ)

📍 Key Update
✅ India signed the BBNJ (High Seas Treaty) in 2024, but ratification is pending.
✅ Delay due to legal amendments (e.g. Biological Diversity Act).

📍 Global Status
✅ 49 countries have ratified it (as of June 10); 60 required for legal enforcement.

📍 Contentious Issues
✅ Treaty covers resources beyond EEZ, not under any country’s jurisdiction.
✅ India seeks clarity on equitable economic benefit sharing before ratifying.

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