...Nations, Have agreed as follows: Article l 1. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental...destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party. 2. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to assist, encourage or induce any State, group...

...significantly for military purposes, with potentially disastrous consequences." The Convention prohibits the hostile use of environmental modification techniques...destruction, damage, or injury to any other State Party." According to the Understanding related to this article, these terms are to be interpreted as follows:...

...the Environmental Modification Treaty, which has just been opened for signature, and would prohibit "engaging in military or any other hostile use of...techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effect." Some ongoing negotiations, such as on the International Humanitarian Law In Armed Conflict,...

...the Environmental Modification Treaty, which has just been opened for signature, and would prohibit "engaging in military or any other hostile use of...techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effect." Some ongoing negotiations, such as on the International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict,...

...now open for signature and ratification by the member states. The treaty prohibits "military or any other hostile use" of environmental modification techniques..."having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects," such as the generation of earthquakes or hurricanes. The agreement in fact had originated with a United...

...Convention is clearly described in Article l: "Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental...destruction, damage, or injury to any other State Party." The coverage of this prohibition is quite restricted. The actions have to be hostile; the unintended...

...to 8, (with 30 abstentions including France). 81 The parties to the freaty undertake "not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental...destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party"; and not to assist, encourage or induce any State, group of States or international organisation to...

...50 states and ratified by 19 states. The basic provision of the Convention is the prohibition of the hostile use of environmental modification techniques...having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects. The Convention is an arms control measure meant essentially to foreclose the possible future exploitation...

...provision, contained in article I, states that: Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental...effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to another State Party. The term "environmental modification techniques" is said, in article II, to encompass:...

...environmental modification convention. As you already know, the convention prohibits the military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques...having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as a means of destruction, damage or injury to another state party. I will very briefly address the impact...