This Article reinterprets the 1976 Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) to show how it might rationally strengthen protections for the environment against intentional damage by states, particularly during armed conflict. The Article applies the orthodox rules of treaty interpretation to analyze in depth the Convention text, the travaux préparatoires, and available subsequent state practice, aiming to determine how the somewhat opaque Article II of ENMOD and its definition of “environmental modification technique” is best understood. It concludes that ENMOD has a broader potential application than it has historically been given.

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沉睡的巨人？ENMOD 公约作为对武装冲突及其他领域故意环境伤害的限制


本文重新解释了 1976 年《禁止军事或任何其他敌对使用环境改变技术公约》（ENMOD），以说明它如何合理地加强对环境的保护，防止国家故意破坏，尤其是在武装冲突期间。本文应用条约解释的正统规则来深入分析公约文本、准备工作和随后可用的国家实践，旨在确定如何最好地理解 ENMOD 中有点模糊的第 II 条及其对“环境改变技术”的定义。它得出的结论是，ENMOD 具有比历史上更广泛的潜在应用。