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… Obligations Relating to Transboundary Environmental … relating to non-State actors; (h) obligations relating to transboundary harm; and (i) obligations relating to those in … information on their actions that may have an “appreciable effect” on the environmental. The Czech Republic has adopted …

… Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their … on the Ban of the import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes … human rights and environmental law have recognized the effect of environmental degradation on human welfare. A …

… the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of their Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes … to avoid harm irrespective of whether or not there is transboundary impact or international responsibility. The … but it need not do this for the PPP to have its intended effect. Examples The 1990 International Convention on Oil …

… birth or other status, and which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment … legal frameworks in order to prevent, reduce and remedy transboundary and global environmental harm that interferes … transbound- ary and global threats to human rights. Transboundary and global environmental harm can have severe …

… different agencies and treaty bodies has had some negative effect on the success of integrative laws and policies and … compels early and complete data to make informed choices. Transboundary impacts also produce significant demands for … violation of the right to information regarding the transboundary movement of wastes and dangerous products.106 …

… June 1998); Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or Their Transboundary Fluxes (Geneva, 18 November 1991), Article 2 … to State action or inaction that has significant injurious effect on a person’s home or private and family life …

… activities. Human rights courts and tribunals have given effect to various human rights linked to environmental … it is effectively implemented. Obligations Relating to Transboundary Environmental Harm: Many grave threats to the enjoyment of human rights are due to transboundary environmental harm. This raises the question of …

… and programmes for development that may have a direct effect on them. Meaningful and early participation is not … j u s t i c e It is not only environmental harm that has a transboundary dimension. Some of the perpetrators of abuses … the international community must also address the transboundary dimension of such violations by setting …

… a warming planet, amplified in many cases by the El Niño effect. 32. In what has become a tragic annual event, a … not best understood as a set of simultaneously occurring transboundary harms that should be addressed by each State … economy standards”.31 Such assessments should include the transboundary effects of the activities. But even with …

… – assuming the requisite political will to do so – to give effect to a mutually compatible overall set of international … involving stakeholders in decision-making, improving transboundary water arrangements and adapting and restoring … The “do no harm” (or more specifically, “do no significant transboundary harm”) principle is among the few international …