| A. C. Kiss - 1995 - 380 pages
...respect, Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration paves the way in the right direction, where it stipulates: "In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of mll scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent... | |
| Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann - 1995 - 186 pages
...that cause severe environmental degradation or are found to be harmful to human health. Principle 15 In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilites. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty... | |
| Peter B. Payoyo - 1997 - 572 pages
...available.385 382 Resolution 2467 A, B, C & D (XXIII). 383 Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration provides: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious of irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing... | |
| Henrik Ringbom - 1997 - 286 pages
...growing number of conventions and declarations, the Rio Declaration required in Principle 15 that: 'in order to protect the environment the precautionary...applied by States according to their capabilities. When there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not... | |
| Helen Reece - 1998 - 344 pages
...Materials 874, Principle 15: 'In order to protect the environment, the precautionary principle shall he widely applied by states according to their capabilities....threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent... | |
| Ben Boer, Donald R. Rothwell, Ross Ramsay, Donald Rothwell - 1998 - 408 pages
...stage, no legislative steps have been taken. 67 "Precautionary principle" means the principle that in order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by parties according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage,... | |
| Laura Westra - 1998 - 296 pages
...things to come from the 1992 Earth Summit and Agenda 21 is Article XV, the precautionary principle: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely practiced by the States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible... | |
| Dennis Soden, Brent R. Steel - 1999 - 840 pages
...THE R1O CONTEXT A precautionary concept was incorporated in principle 15 of the Rio Declaration: "1n order to protect the environment, the precautionary...capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irretrievable damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing... | |
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