ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DURING ARMED CONFLICTS
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DURING ARMED CONFLICTS

Summary/Abstract: In the context of the outbreak of the armed conflict in Ukraine, the analysis of legal instruments for environmental protection, guaranteeing national and cross-border environmental security are topical issues. Given that the negative effects of pollution caused by an armed conflict do not only occur at the state level but can spread rapidly, causing damage to states neighboring the war zone, this article proposes a debate on international regulations on environmental protection during an armed conflict. Undoubtedly, history has shown that wars of all times have caused serious and long-lasting damage to the environment. If in the past military tactics such as arson, water poisoning, deforestation was used, today new types of weapons, such as nuclear, biological, chemical, artificial weathering, can have a devastating effect on human health and life on earth. Consequently, this study is built around the idea that environmental protection is and must remain a major public interest objective, both at the national level but also at the international level, especially in times of crisis, generated by the existence of different armed conflicts.

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