Cooperation of States in the Field of Legal Protection of the Oceans from Pollution and Conservation of Marine Biodiversity

The relevance of researching the legal problems of cooperation between states on the protection of the World Ocean is due to the following factors: firstly, the World Ocean is the center of concentration of natural resources and the formation of climatic processes on which the state of the environment depends, and secondly, the irrational use of natural resources of marine spaces, which is expressed, first of all, in their contamination with various toxic materials, leading to mass death of living organisms and air pollution. The purpose of this research is a legal analysis of the mechanisms for regulating cooperation between states on issues of combating pollution of the World Ocean. To achieve this purpose, the following tasks were set: to analyze international treaties on the regulation of environmental cooperation between states in the field of environmental protection of the World Ocean at the universal and regional levels; analyze fundamental scientific research in the field of formation and further legal regulation of international cooperation in the field of protecting marine spaces from pollution; directions for further development of cooperation between states in the field of combating pollution of the World Ocean have been determined. When conducting this research, methods such as systemic, formal legal, comparative legal, historical and legal, as well as methods of analogy, classification, abstraction, analysis and synthesis were used. Based on the results of research of international treaties on cooperation in the marine environment, the authors came to the conclusion that the protection of the World Ocean from pollution has become global, universal. To solve the problem, it is necessary, focusing on the generally recognized principles of international law, as well as the conceptual provisions of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, to fill gaps in the field of legal regulation and to develop and subsequently introduce into international legal practice legal norms that should be aimed at to protect the environment of the World Ocean from such sources of pollution as liquefied natural gas and household waste, which are discharged into various marine spaces.