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" The Parties should take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects, where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be... "
Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Perspectives and Prospects - Page 137
edited by - 2006 - 336 pages
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Ethics & Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect

Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 215 pages
...climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change...
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Global Climate Change and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion: Hearing Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection - 1991 - 142 pages
...among parties and cooperation among all nations. 12) take a precautionary approach, reaffirming that lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures that are commensurate with the expected extent and likelihood of any adverse impact of climate change,...
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Global Warming: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power - 1992 - 196 pages
...mitigate the adverse consequences of, climate change. (Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage,) lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures. 6. Statee 0*1 1 promote an open and balanced multilateral trading system....
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Negotiating Survival: Four Priorities After Rio

Richard N. Gardner - 1992 - 100 pages
...climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change...
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International Conventions on Protection of Humanity and Environment

Günter Hoog, Angela Steinmetz - 1993 - 660 pages
...climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change...
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Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario

Anne Lorene Chambers, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History - 1997 - 1388 pages
...Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. It states that "where there are threats of serious or irreversible...environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent degradation" (UNCED,...
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Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of ...

Peter Read - 1994 - 324 pages
...relation to the uncertainties the Statement said 'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures.' - a turn of phrase which is embodied in the FCCC.5 This response...
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Negotiating Climate Change: The Inside Story of the Rio Convention

Irving M. Mintzer, J. Amber Leonard - 1994 - 412 pages
...climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change...
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The United Nations at Age Fifty: A Legal Perspective

Christian Tomuschat - 1995 - 360 pages
...climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures . . . ." The degree to which each of these emerging principles will continue...
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Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change ...

Hoe-sŏng Yi, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group III. - 1996 - 462 pages
...climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change...
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