(a) Environmental conditions of transboundary waters

The word transboundary qualified damage to stress the transboundary orientation of the draft principles.

The third element concerned the notion that transboundary damage included damage to the environment.

D. Liability for marine environmental damage

(a) to ensure prompt and adequate compensation to victims of transboundary damage and

And no environmental damage has been detected.

avoid lasting environmental damage and protect ecosystems

30. quot Toward a Convention for the Settlement of International Claims Arising from Transboundary Nuclear Pollution Damage quot , International Environmental Reporter, vol. 11, No. 6 (June 1988).

Paragraph (c) defined transboundary damage and accentuated the extraterritorial context of the draft principles.

Richer countries do much of the environmental damage.

The draft articles on prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous activities served as a useful guide for States on how to prevent transboundary damage.

In cases where there were transboundary environmental effects, international environmental agreements based on the Rio Declaration might be appropriate.

All protocols have entered into force, except the three protocols adopted at the Kiev Ministerial Conference, on Strategic Environmental Assessment on Civil Liability and Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters and on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers.

D. Liability for marine environmental damage . 93 96 26

Environmental measures addressing transboundary or global environmental problems should, as far as possible, be based on an international consensus. quot

In other words, the question is whether the term environmental damage , as used in Security Council resolution 687 (1991), includes what is referred to as pure environmental damage i.e., damage to environmental resources that have no commercial value.

In that context, Iraq argued that damage resulting from the invasion and occupation of Kuwait was not compensable unless it reached the threshold that is generally required in international law for compensation in cases of state responsibility for transboundary environmental damage.

111. The shifting of the location of environmental damage caused by trade may affect total global environmental damage by either increasing or decreasing it.

It lumped together as possible victims natural and legal persons, including States, and coupled damage to the environment with other kinds of transboundary damage.

Article 20 (2) of the Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters, Kiev, 2003, provides

According to Jordan, this population increase resulted in environmental damage.

Trust Fund to finance clean up of environmental damage from

It's not that people are ignorant to the environmental damage.

The present draft principles apply to transboundary damage caused by hazardous activities not prohibited by international law.

(ii) Annex I to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991

promote transboundary river basin management as well as regional cooperation under the Caspian Sea Environmental Convention

Support was expressed for the present draft principle, noting that it was an essential means of minimizing transboundary damage.

It restated the importance of an enhanced international regime to cover possible transboundary damage arising from peaceful nuclear activity.

(b) to preserve and protect the environment in the event of transboundary damage, especially with respect to mitigation of damage to the environment and its restoration or reinstatement.

On the environmental front, Rouhani is also busy undoing his predecessor s damage.

The involvement of States became prominent in pursuing claims for environmental damage.

Why is it only the Iraqi ammunition dumps that cause environmental damage?

Upon the occurrence of an incident involving a hazardous activity which results or is likely to result in transboundary damage

94. Growing international concern about the state of the environment as well as transboundary environmental issues are also forging a linkage between environmental policies and trade.

The implementation of sustainability in tourism can also be supported through the effective implementation of multilateral environmental agreements, which aim to tackle environmental issues, and activities that could have transboundary environmental effects.

(d) the States affected or likely to be affected by the transboundary damage shall take all feasible measures to mitigate and if possible to eliminate the effects of such damage

(g) operator means any person in command or control of the activity at the time the incident causing transboundary damage occurs.

(i) Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991, General provision

But China also has suffered a century s worth of environmental damage in 30 years.

Environmental damage, whether man made or from natural causes, spares no region on Earth.

Delay would be terribly costly as some forms of environmental damage may be irreversible.

Secondly, the strict liability regime governing transboundary damage in the draft principles was inflexible and not entirely consistent with current international practice.

Poverty and environmental degradation often interact to create a downward spiral of poverty and food insecurity that leads to further environmental damage.

Food and environment are closely interlinked environmental deterioration limits food production capacity, while unsustainable food consumption and production patterns cause environmental damage.

Transboundary organized crime