Protecting the environment during warfare

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Measures in accordance with international law should be considered to address, in times of armed conflict, large-scale destruction of the environment that cannot be justified under international law. The UN General Assembly and its Sixth Committee are the appropriate forums to deal with this subject. The specific competence and role of the International Committee of the Red Cross should be taken into account.

1. Reducing pollution from military activities
2. Protecting global environment
3. Developing international environmental law
4. Addressing environmental devastation

1. Monitoring pollution from military activities

1. Balancing conventional armed forces

1. Environmental consequences of war

1. War
2. Unnaturalness
3. Destructiveness
4. Conflict