The polluter pays. This environmental mantra will soon be enshrined in an extension to the treaty that governs Antarctica. Companies or nations that cause environmental disasters there will have to clean up the mess.
The agreement aims to force polluters to respond quickly to repair the damage they have caused. If they fail to do so, other agencies will have the legal right to do it for them and reclaim the costs.
Signed in Stockholm, Sweden, on 15 June by all 45 signatory nations of the Antarctic Treaty, the Stockholm annex, as it is now known, allows offenders to be…
