The Nobel Peace Prize was just awarded to ICAN for "its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/world/nobel-peace-prize.html For those interested, you might want to know that the new treaty has two sub-articles that relate directly to environmental issues, as follows. Art. 6.2. Each State Party, with respect to areas under its jurisdiction or control contaminated as a result of activities related to the testing or use of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, shall take necessary and appropriate measures towards the environmental remediation of areas so contaminated. Art. 7.6. Without prejudice to any other duty or obligation that it may have under international law, a State Party that has used or tested nuclear weapons or any other nuclear explosive devices shall have a responsibility to provide adequate assistance to affected States Parties, for the purpose of victim assistance and environmental remediation. The full text is at: http://undocs.org/A/CONF.229/2017/8 Ron Ronald Mitchell, Professor Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/ IEA Database Director: <http://iea.uoregon.edu/> http://iea.uoregon.edu/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
