The U.N. Conference on Environment and Development: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environment of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, May 7, 1991, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 241 pages |
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Page 211 - . . . under the principles of international law ... no State has the right to use or permit the use of its territory in such a manner as to cause injury by fumes in or to the territory of another or the properties or persons therein, when the case is of serious consequence and the injury is established by clear and convincing evidence ".s 7.
Page 29 - State and the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs...
Page 86 - Protection of the oceans, all kinds of seas, including enclosed and semi-enclosed seas, and coastal areas and the protection, rational use and development of their living resources 18.
Page 102 - Mr. Chairman, Members of the Subcommittee, Ladies and Gentlemen: My name is William A.
Page 148 - My heart is moved by all I cannot save : so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
Page 211 - ... under the principles of international law, as well as of the law of the United States, no State has the right to use or permit the use of its territory in such a manner as to cause injury by fumes in or to the territory of another or the properties or persons therein, when the case is of serious consequence and the injury is established by clear and convincing evidence.
Page 32 - However, execution of the complete program will eventually require an appropriation of cash to the Navy Industrial fund as Indicated above. Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank you and members of this committee for the courtesies extended me. EXHIBIT I Navy industrial fund activities (as of Dec. 31, 1959) i Includes listed major plants plus 10 branch plants not listed.
Page 203 - Therefore we consider that, faced with a problem the solution to which has three salient features, namely that it is vital, urgent and global, we are in a situation that calls not only for implementation of existing principles but also for a new approach, through the development of new principles of international law including new and more effective decision-making and enforcement mechanisms.
Page 164 - Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
Page 196 - ... germplasm for pharmaceutical industry ranges from an estimated US$4.7 billion now to US$47 billion by the year 2000. In spite of the immeasurable contribution that Third world bloodthirsty has made to the wealth of industrialised countries, corporations, governments and aid agencies of the north continue to create legal and political frameworks to make the Third World pay for what it originally gifted. The emerging trends in global trade and technology worked inherently against justice and ecological...