State Responsibility and the Global Environmental Crisis

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Ginevra Le Moli is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University, and a Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge, where she is currently conducting a SNSF-funded full-time project on ‘Who owns natural resources’.

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State Responsibility and the Global Environmental Crisis

August 8, 2021

Ginevra Le Moli

This post explores some aspects of the ILC’s Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (‘ARSIWA’) as they concern the global environmental crisis. The understanding of environmental degradation has changed over time from a bilateral/horizonal issue to a community one. Even within the latter frame, the enormity of the challenge is now much better understood.