(a) Environmental conditions of transboundary waters

Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.

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.

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

avoid lasting environmental damage and protect ecosystems

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

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

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.

Richer countries do much of the environmental damage.

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

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

(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.

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

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

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.

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

(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

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

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

(e) transboundary damage means damage caused to persons, property or the environment in the territory or in other places under the jurisdiction or control of a State other than the State of origin

In economic terms, environmental damage in Serbia and Montenegro cost as much as 2 billion annually and required intensified efforts to offset the damage.

By building sustainable cities, policymakers can support social and economic development, while minimizing environmental damage.

Seriously concerned by the fires in the affected territories, which have inflicted widespread environmental damage,

Iraq also disputes Saudi Arabia's quantitative estimates of the nature and extent of environmental damage.

It was observed that the balanced provisions of the draft principles would contribute significantly to the resolution of issues relating to compensation for transboundary damage.

Protesters fighting to save Lake Urmia in Iran from permanent environmental damage have not given up.

(a) the State of origin shall promptly notify all States affected or likely to be affected of the incident and the possible effects of the transboundary damage

(b) To ensure that transboundary waters are used with the aim of ecologically sound and rational water management, conservation of water resources and environmental protection

A powerful documentary on the economic plunder of copper mining in Zambia and the associated environmental damage.

2. Victims of transboundary damage should have access to remedies in the State of origin that are no less prompt, adequate and effective than those available to victims that suffer damage, from the same incident, within the territory of that State.

Moreover, it requires consideration of the establishment of a revolving fund to assist in emergency situations to minimize damage from accidents arising from transboundary movements of hazardous wastes.

Rich countries' larger contribution to environmental damage means that they must shoulder greater responsibility for fixing the problem.

Likewise, regional and subregional health and environment policies in a transboundary context play an important role in preventing health diseases and in safeguarding growth with environmental sustainability.

Transboundary organized crime

German voters balk at any suggestion that we should limit the environmental damage caused by big and expensive cars.

The use of nuclear power for exclusively peaceful purposes would cut down on environmental damage and harmful climate change.

The Panel also found that the damage from oil contamination to the shoreline between the Kuwait border and Abu Ali constituted environmental damage directly resulting from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

It was also suggested the commentaries should elaborate methods of assessing environmental damage, including impairment of its non use value.

Environmental issues The main environmental issues affecting Colombia are deforestation soil and water quality damage from overuse of pesticides air pollution, especially in Bogota, from vehicle emissions and other main cities.

(d) Organized transboundary crime

It also addressed the issue of post conflict reconstruction in cases of environmental damage and stressed the imperative of developing new, binding international legal instruments to ensure environmental integrity during armed conflict.

The Panel has previously found that damage caused to Iran's marine environment by those oil spills would constitute environmental damage that is compensable in accordance with paragraph 16 of Security Council resolution 687 (1991).

(a) Risk of causing significant transboundary harm includes risks taking the form of a high probability of causing significant transboundary harm and a low probability of causing disastrous transboundary harm

Income inequality was rising dramatically, environmental damage was worsening rapidly, and inflation was leading to weak real income growth for poor households.

Recognizing that environmental damage has potentially negative effects on children and their enjoyment of their lives, health and satisfactory standard of living,