Practice question
A State invokes its resource sovereignty as a complete answer to a concern that an industrial activity within its jurisdiction will damage a neighboring State's environment. Which reading best reflects Rio Principle 2?
- Resource sovereignty eliminates the responsibility clause.
- The sovereign right must be read together with the environmental responsibility in the same principle.
- The neighboring State automatically owns the industrial site.
- All domestic industry is prohibited.
- Only the project's commercial value matters.
Legal references
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992), Principle 2, https://www.un.org/esa/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm
- Convention on Biological Diversity, Article 3, https://www.cbd.int/convention/articles/default.shtml?a=cbd-03
- UN Audiovisual Library, Stockholm and Rio Declarations, https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/dunche/dunche.html
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