ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the marine (‘blue’) dimensions of the European Union’s (EU) European Green Deal, a nearly continent-wide initiative to realise environmental sustainability in general and carbon neutrality in particular. Toward that end, the European Green Deal has implied and explicit marine components – implied because maritime considerations matter for the programme’s wider objectives and explicit because it includes specific maritime sectoral policies and the union’s Integrated Maritime Policy. The European Green Deal should be developed in ways that comport with the EU’s policies that affect the oceans and seas. In particular, this chapter calls for policies and laws that move the union beyond its established Integrated Maritime Policy toward achieving coordinated climate-related objectives through the European Green Deal, the European Climate Law and promotion of the broader blue economy.
