State Liability For Transboundary Environmental Pollution
- IJLLR Journal
- Mar 18
- 1 min read
Bhuvanesh Mahesh, LLM, Christ University, Bengaluru
ABSTRACT
The effect of transboundary environmental contamination happens in a foreign country's jurisdiction after actually beginning in a foreign country. Transboundary contamination is understood generally to be contamination that affects many countries, where many are responsible for emissions. Harm is dispersed within a large geography by the mechanisms of transmission. Pollutants can migrate and accumulate remote from their point of origin by these mechanisms of transmission. Rivers, forests, and other ecosystems are some of the typical environmental sinks where some of these pollutants accumulate. The atmosphere and oceans of the earth are some of the global environmental sinks where other contaminants accumulate.
These pollutants deserve the label "transboundary environmental pollution" because they show a complete disregard for political or geographical boundaries. Transboundary pollution takes place in all kinds of locations, ranging from the air, seas, land, and lastly space. These have been dealt with by the International Community of States as transboundary air and water pollution, contamination of common resources, and contamination of global commons. The multi-faceted nature of the threats caused by transboundary air and water pollution is expected to be discussed in the thesis.
