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12 Asia Pac. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/apjel12 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial Ocean Acidification: Addressing the other CO2 Problem Meridith Simons and Tim Stephens* Introduction International environmental law has tended to develop in a highly sectoral fashion. Regimes have been spawned to address specific environmental problems, such as particular sources and types of pollution, rather than to address environmental governance in a holistic and integrated manner having regard to the reality of ecological interdependence.1 As a consequence there is today not only a surfeit of environmental regimes but also a scarcity of coordination, as many regimes operate largely independently, and sometimes even inconsistently, with one another.2 In this respect the problem of ocean acidification, the changing chemistry of the oceans as a result of the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, presents an interesting case study of the difficulties faced in addressing new cross- cutting environmental challenges effectively and expeditiously in an era of environmental regime complexity. In this Editorial we sketch the nature of the ocean acidification governance problem, both in terms of its pathology as an environmental threat and the legal and political challenges faced in effectively averting it. * Meredith Simons is an LLB student at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia. Dr Tim Stephens BA (Hons) Syd LLB (Hons) Syd M.Phil Cantab PhD Syd is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney and Co-Eclitor in Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of International Law. The authors express their gratitude for the financial support provided by the Legal Studies Scholarship Fund for research on the governance challenges implicated in the regulation of ocean acidification. Parts of this Editorial Were presented in a paper given by Tim Stephens at a Public Seminar at the Australian National University's Centre for International and Public Law on 3 April 2009. 1 See generally Tim Stephens, International Courts and Environmental Protection (2009) at 1 -16. 2 See Rticliger Wolfrum & Nele Matz, Conflicts in International Environmental Law (2003). ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, VOL 12, ISSUE I 0 Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law 2009 1

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