...following: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied to states according to their capabilities. Where there...threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent...

...the recently signed United Nations Conference on Environment and Development states the following: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied to states according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage,...

...the recently signed United Nations Conference on Environment and Development states the following: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied to states according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage,...

...substances that cause severe environmental degradation or are found to be harmful to human health. 15) In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific knowledge, certainly shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effecting measures...

...that cause severe environmental degradation or are found to be harmful to human health. Principle 15: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing costeffective measures to prevent...

...that cause severe environmental degradation or are found to be harmful to human health. Principle 15 In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent...

...approach is the precautionary principle. As presented in the Rio Declaration (Principle 15) it reads: "In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent...

...Principle 15, adopted at the 1992 UN Conference on the Environment and Development. It stipulated that: "In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainly shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent...

...which should inform environmental policy. Thus, Principle 15 of the June 1992 Rio Declaration is that: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent...

...prevent the relocation and transfer to other States of any activities and substances that cause • In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent...