Practice Relating to Rule 43. Application of General Principles on the Conduct of Hostilities to the Natural Environment
In 1992, during a debate in the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly on protection of the environment in times of armed conflict, Brazil stated: “A principle of customary international law which, in general terms, protected the environment in times of armed conflict had been recognized implicitly in paragraph 39.6 of Agenda 21 of UNEP.”