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common but differentiated responsibility, principle of

The assertion that while all states bear responsibility for damage to the environment, the extent to which they should seek to remedy such damage depends on their differing circumstances. It appears in some environmental instruments, but is not (yet) a principle of customary international law - and were it to become so its imprecision might lessen its utility. See also precautionary principle.

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