SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE DONOGHUE
Compensation for “pure” environmental damage — Valuation of damage to environmental
goods and services — Unsupported award for the value of restoration of the wetland.
1. I submit this separate opinion in order to set out the reasons for my votes with respect to
compensation for the impairment or loss of environmental goods and services (Judgment,
para. 157 (1) (a)) and restoration costs (ibid., para. 157 (1) (b)).
I. COMPENSATION FOR THE IMPAIRMENT OR LOSS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
GOODS AND SERVICES

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE CANÇADO TRINDADE
Table of contents
I. Prolegomena. ........................................................................................................................... 1
II. The Principle Neminem Laedere and the Duty of Reparation for Damages. ........................... 2
III. The Indissoluble Whole of Breach and Prompt Reparation. .................................................... 3
IV. Duty of Reparation: A Fundamental, rather than “Secondary”, Obligation. ........................... 4