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" 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 used... "
Ethics, Equity, and International Negotiations on Climate Change - Page 17
edited by - 2002 - 181 pages
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Ethics & Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect

Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 215 pages
...principle, incorporating a variation of the "no-regrets" policy and economic efficiency criteria: 3. The Parties should take precautionary measures to...ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost. To achieve this, such policies and measures should take into account different socio-economic contexts,...
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Negotiating Survival: Four Priorities After Rio

Richard N. Gardner - 1992 - 100 pages
...a disproportionate or abnormal burden under the Convention, should be given full consideration. 3. The Parties should take precautionary measures to...ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost. To achieve this, such policies and measures should take into account different socio-economic contexts,...
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International Conventions on Protection of Humanity and Environment

Günter Hoog, Angela Steinmetz - 1993 - 660 pages
...a disproportionate or abnormal burden under the Convention, should be given full consideration. 3. The Parties should take precautionary measures to...ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost. To achieve this, such policies and measures should take into account different socio-economic contexts,...
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Negotiating Climate Change: The Inside Story of the Rio Convention

Irving M. Mintzer, J. Amber Leonard - 1994 - 412 pages
...a disproportionate or abnormal burden under the Convention, should be given full consideration. 3. The Parties should take precautionary measures to...ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost. To achieve this, such policies and measures should take into account different socio-economic contexts,...
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Prospects and Strategies for Nuclear Power: Global Boon Or Dangerous Diversion?

Peter Beck - 1994 - 148 pages
...calculations and lower expenditure. The UN Convention on Climate Change 22 includes the phrase '... that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost-effective'. Taking into account the impossibility of ever establishing the true benefit of any individual action,...
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Blueprint 4: Capturing Global Environmental Value

David William Pearce - 1995 - 230 pages
...Article 3.3 calls on Parties to take 'precautionary measures' to control greenhouse gas emissions: taking into account that policies and measures to...ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost (emphasis added) . Similarly, the April 30 1992 Participants' meeting approved a text on the future...
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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
...to the precautionary principle expressly included in the Convention in Article 3.3, which provides that The parties should take precautionary measures...ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost. A philosophic and economic examination of risk bearing, including the maximin principle, may provide...
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Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment - 1996 - 1210 pages
...guidance, inter alia, on decision making where there is a lack of full scientific certainty, namely that the Parties should: "take precautionary measures...and measures to deal with climate change should be cost effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost. To achieve this, such policies...
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Les conflits de lois et de juridictions dans un espace économique intégré: l ...

436 pages
...Change Convention régime. In fact, among the principles guiding the Parties, the Convention provides that "policies and measures to deal with climate change...ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost" (Art. 3, para. 3). The core provision of the Convention (Art. 4, para. 2) states that developed countries...
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Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment - 1996 - 1212 pages
...emission targets. The imework Convention on Climate Change states that "policies and measures to deal h climate change should be cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest isible cost." This means that emission reductions should be carried out where it is :apest to do so....
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