Regional:

Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any other hostile use of Environmental Modification Techniques

Objectives:
To prohibit the military or other hostile use of such techniques in order to consolidate world peace and trust among nations.

Summary of Provisions:

• Parties not to use environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to other parties, nor to assist, encourage or induce any other State, group of States or international organization to do so.
  
• "Environmental modification techniques" refers to any technique for changing, through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes, dynamics, composition or structure (i) of the earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere or (ii) of outer space.
  
• The use of such techniques for peaceful purposes not to be hindered. Parties must exchange scientific and technological information concerning such uses.
  
• Any complaint of breach by a party to be lodged with the United Nations Security Council, which will take care of its investigation.

Date of entry into force:
5.10.1978

Arab Participants:
Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen