Practice question
A State designs a genuine pollution-cost scheme but deliberately structures it to distort international trade and investment, dismissing public-interest review as irrelevant. Which assessment best reflects Principle 16?
- Polluter pays excuses every design choice
- The proposal disregards the principle’s express public-interest and trade qualifications
- International investment must always be prohibited
- Only imported products may bear environmental costs
- The principle bars all national environmental measures
Legal references
- https://www.un.org/esa/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm — Rio Declaration (1992), Principle 16
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