The Long Term Impact of COVID on the Treaty

It's been nearly 20 years in the making. The actual negotiations were like five years, but still it's a huge amount of time. I think one thing that you see often in environmental agreements is this kind of general divide between northern wealthier nations and the global south where there are poor countries. One of them is related to money. So if, for example, some of the poor nations like island states need to monitor their impacts on the high seas, monitoring takes money. And so you often see tension around the North South divide about how we're going to share those resources among all treaty members.