ABSTRACT
Environmental Justice combines some elements of all these theories – e.g. its concern for environmental protection as a way to maximize goods for society as a whole; its concern with the distributive justice to create a society which is fair for all populations, rich or poor, and its concern with minimizing inequalities. State Responsibility is a fifth principle used to define notions of international environmental justice and fairness. This principle implies that if state breaches an obligation, it is required to pay reparation for damages caused due to a breach of obligation. Environmental justice seeks to highlight the socio-economic stratification in society, in order to minimize the dominance of any one group over another. The industrialized countries of the North, in most cases, acknowledge that their disproportionate use of resources, in the name of trade and development, has been a major source of environmental degradation.
