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… international law regarding liability and compensation for adverse effects of environmental damage caused by activities … seeks to protect human health and the environment against adverse effects resulting or likely to result from human … to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of hazardous wastes. Parties have committed …

… The basic rationale of these obligations is to prevent adverse transboundary effects on other watercourse states. … to carry or permit activities that may cause a significant adverse transboundary environmental effect to another state shall give timely notification of …

… projects and rights of third parties. 90 3.1.3 Significant adverse effects to other watercourse states – Objective test … | Notification Concerning Planned Measures with Possible Adverse Effects 139 12.1 Commentary 139 12.1.1 Significant adverse effect 140 12.1.2 Implements or permits the implementation …

… impoundment and release of water from on-stream dams; (2) effect of on-stream dams on fisheries/aquatic habitat and … Justice (“ICJ”) in the Gabcikovo- Nagymaros case.[1] The adverse effects related to slack water have also become a … below the dam. This may in turn have particularly acute adverse impacts on some cold-water fish species. For example, …

… in Human Rights Council resolution 10/4 that the adverse effects of climate change have a range of … A/HRC/31/52 5 onset events, both of which have adverse effects on the full enjoyment of all human rights. … a warming planet, amplified in many cases by the El Niño effect. 32. In what has become a tragic annual event, a …

… identify activities that are likely to have significant adverse impacts on the conservation and sustainable use of … each level of diversity, best be assessed in terms of the effect on one of the following aspects of biodiversity: • … that may significantly reduce or entirely prevent adverse impacts on biodiversity. 5.2 Stages in the process …

… birth or other status, and which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment … “should identify and assess any actual or potential adverse human rights impacts with which they may be involved … the responsibility to avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through environmental harm, to …

… But we need to keep working on them and through them, to effect real change. There is still much more to do. If you … resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of … should take the lead in combating climate change and its adverse impacts.212 Moreover, the specifi c commitments in …

… impact” is defined in Article 1 as: “any significant adverse effect on the environment resulting from a change in the … force since 1996. It explicitly requires the avoidance of adverse environmental effects on transboundary freshwater …

… of activities which have or are likely to have significant adverse impacts on the conservation and sustainable use of … or manage processes and activities where a significant adverse effect on biological diversity has been determined pursuant …