Section IV describes the ICRC's position on issues related to protection of the natural environment in time of armed conflict, and section V discusses what remains to be done in the future.Įver since its inception, international humanitarian law (IHL), has set limits on the right of belligerents to cause suffering and injury to people and to wreak destruction on objects, incl uding objects belonging to the natural environment. It then goes on to list the results of the principal activities carried out recently by various organizations (II) or under ICRC auspices (III).
The present report begins by recalling the main provisions of existing law (I). The present report has thus been drawn up in response to the request contained in paragraph (b) of the decision quoted above. It is also prepared to submit the results of its work to the 47th session of the General Assembly. 2(g), of the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement), and the ICRC has declared itself ready to undertake work aimed at protecting the natural environment in wartime. The international community has given the International Committee of the Red Cross a mandate " to work for the understanding and dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts and to prepare any development thereof " (Art. (c) Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of i ts forty-seventh session the item entitled'Protection of the environment in times of armed conflict'". (b) Decides to request the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session on activities undertaken in the framework of the International Red Cross with regard to that issue (a) Takes note that the protection of the environment in times of armed conflict is to be addressed at the Twenty-Sixth International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent On 9 December 1991, the United Nations General Assembly concluded its deliberations on item 140 of its agenda ( " Exploitation of the environment as a weapon in times of armed conflict and the taking of practical measures to prevent such exploitation " ) with the adoption of decision 46/417, which reads as follows:
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