Alessandro Antonello es profesor asociado de Historia Ambiental en la Universidad de Tasmania, Australia. Es autor de The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment (Oxford University Press, 2019).

¿Quién está protegiendo el medio ambiente de la Antártida?

Neumayer Channel in the Antarctic Peninsula, January 2020. Antarctica's ice and its biological communities face grave, systemic threats from global climate change. Photo: Alessandro Antonello
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (third from right, seated) on his way to the Base General Bernardo O'Higgins in Antarctica, where he witnessed first-hand the deadly impacts of the climate crisis, 23 November 2023. UN Photo/Mark Garten
In 2023, Secretary-General António Guterres visited Antarctica to witness the impacts of the climate crisis, 22 November 2023. UN Photo/Mark Garten

El Sistema del Tratado Antártico, vigente desde 1961, se dedica principalmente a las amenazas ambientales que surgen a nivel local, incluidas las de la pesca, el turismo y la investigación científica.