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International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2014
… access and bene- fit-sharing (ABS)10 and a biosafety liability regime;11 and the depletion of the ozone layer, … 11 Nagoya–Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, … loss, and damage of property? Laws need to establish liability and redress and thus be able to call for preventive …
Ratification and Implementation Guidelines
… and the identity of entities or persons who should assume liability for some or all or the remediation costs. These can … technically and le- gally, particularly where polluter liability in a particular situation is not clearly defined. … sites. Nor does it advance the de- velopment of pollution liability frameworks to facilitate site remediation. In this …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… the European Court referred to the Convention on Civil Liability for Damage resulting from Activities Dangerous to … and participation. See, e.g., Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to … (Paris, Sept. 22, 1992), art. 9; Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to …
UNEP Global Judges Programme
… and the environment • corporate responsibility and liability 12 • approaches to judicial reasoning in … environmental law including, within the applicable law of liability and compensation for environmental harm under … resolution mechanisms and non-compliance procedures; liability and compensation; criminal law and the environment; …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… on how to perform an EIA, as well as defining elements of liability and compensation in cases of environmental damage. … effects, advance notice measures, assignment of liability, and payment of compensation for damages. Section … capacity building, public access to information, and liability and compensation. The guidelines recognized …
Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper
… at least anecdotal evidence that, at the domestic level, liability claims pertaining to environmental harm have led to … Michael Faure & Andre Nollekaemper, International Liability as an Instrument to Prevent and Compensate for … entity. Finally, it should be realized that state liability could arise not just because of the state’s direct …
Sources of international water law
… rules applicable under general international law to any liability of States for damage caused by water pollution. … of this Convention. Article 7 Responsibility and liability The Parties shall support appropriate international … criteria and procedures in the field of responsibility and liability. Article 8 Protection of information The provisions …
Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability
… production and consumption, the preservation of nature and liability for damage to the environment are held concurrently … provisions on protected species. The Environmental Liability Act of 2007 (RT I 2007, 62, 396) transposes Directive 2004/35/EC on environmental liability for the prevention and 68 An English translation is …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… on Water and Health]; and the 2003 Protocol on Civil Liability, Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the … in force), http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/civil-liability/documents/ protocol_e.pdf [hereinafter ECE Protocol …