Question

List the environmental effects of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (as amended) 1969 on the developing world with the effects on industrialized countries and what is one change to the international agreement to increase sustainability.

Answer 1

The International Convention on Civil Liability to Oil Pollution Damage 1969 clearly articulated the meaning of pollution and reverberated the causes and the steps to be taken for environmental regeneration. Some of the critical effects of it on the environment changes in the developing countries can be termed as under:

                                       Any type of environment pollution caused in the international Sea’s would come under the strict control of the dominion that claims that portion of the Sea.

                                       If a country is able to prove that the environmental pollution caused by it is the result of a war, either civil or international, or due to any natural activity, then the country shall not be held liable for the generated pollution.

                                      If pollution is omitted by a vessel or vehicle, the crew of the vessel or vehicle would be held responsible for the generated pollution. The agents or people serving the crew would not be responsible for the pollution.

                                      Any individual taking preventive measures would also be outside the ambit of pollution generating entities.

                                      As a result of the strict environmental regulations imposed by the convention, the developing countries have had the major share of the benefit, as they got the much necessary outside push required to pull them out of the environment hazards and bring the countries to fresh air.

  One critical change that was implemented which increased the sustainability of the nations, and primarily that if the developing nations was that Oil transportation cannot be restricted by any country under any circumstance. It was seen that during emergency or due to enmity, many countries stopped Oil from being transported through their dominion of Sea. This had resulted in to the many countries suffering due to the shortage of Oil under those circumstances. The convention of 1969 did away with this practice, and thereby helping the cause of sustainability of many developing countries.