POLICY AND PRACTICE REVIEWS article
Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Marine Pollution
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1680110
This article is part of the Research TopicAdvances in Marine Environmental Protection: Challenges, Solutions and Perspectives Volume IIView all 56 articles
A Maritime Community with a Shared Future: Bridging Fragmented Legal Regulations for Marine Plastic Pollution
Provisionally accepted
- Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China
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Marine plastic pollution highlights the limitations of fragmented governance regimes. This study proposes the Maritime Community with a Shared Future (MCSF) as a framework to address this challenge. Through comparative legal analysis of treaty conflicts and case studies of the INC process, we demonstrate that the MCSF and the proposed global plastics treaty are designed to have a symbiotic relationship, rather than a competitive one. This research provides a negotiation pathway for the global plastics treaty.
Keywords: a Maritime Community with a Shared Future (MCSF), fragmented legalregulations, marine plastic pollution, marine plastic pollution governance, a Community with aShared Future for Mankind (CSFM)
Received: 05 Aug 2025; Accepted: 30 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Zhao Liu, liuzhao@cust.edu.cn
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