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" ... 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 should be cost-effective... "
Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies ... - Page 936
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment - 1996 - 1190 pages
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Ethics & Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect

Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 215 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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
...on Parties to take 'precautionary measures' to control greenhouse gas emissions: taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change...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
...efficient strategies for achieving emission targets. The Framework Convention on Climate Change states that "policies and measures to deal with climate change...ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost." This means that emission reductions should be carried out where it is cheapest to do so. Analysis on...
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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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Handbook of Environmental Law

United Nations Environment Programme - 1997 - 468 pages
...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...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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Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

John T. Houghton - 1997 - 270 pages
...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...ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost.' Article 4 is concerned with Commitments. ln this article, each of the signatories to the Convention...
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