TRANSBOUNDARY ENVIROMENTAL DISPUTES

  [i] Transboundary Environmental Disputes and the role International Arbitration -Ananya Singh   ABSTRACT: Transboundary environmental disputes are the disputes which arises when conflicts about usage of resources, pollution or ecological damage which occur cross countries or affects multiple countries at once leading to environmental damage or harmful repercussions for long haul. The basic roots of all these conflicts shared resources like rivers, lakes, or air, where one country’s actions such as pushing the levels of water below DSL (Dead storage level) river, emitting pollutants, or overexploiting ecological system or causing harm to aquatic life. One of the landmark cases that laid foundation of the arbitration during the transboundary disputes was the Train Smelter case where fumes damaged the crops. In this paper, we are going to examine two major conflicts of South Asia Kishenganga Arbitration case (2013) which was the arbitration case between India and Pakist...