 | Frederick Kenneth Hare, Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 199 pages
...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 as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and... | |
 | Heidelore Fiedler - 2002 - 445 pages
...Development (Agenda 21) where it was identified. Principle 15 states that "lack of full scientific consensus shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environment degradation" where "there are threats of serious or irreversible damage". To meet the objective,... | |
 | Richard N. Gardner - 1992 - 90 pages
...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 as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and... | |
 | Subrata Roy Chowdhury, Erik M. G. Denters, Paul J. I. M. de Waart - 1992 - 415 pages
...Environmental measures must anticipate, prevent and attack the causes of environmental degradation. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation' (Nr.7).... | |
 | Michael A. Kuliasha, Alexander Zucker - 1992 - 928 pages
..."Environmental measures must anticipate, prevent and attack the causes of environmental degradation. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation." They... | |
 | Raj Mal Lodha - 1993 - 400 pages
...substances that cause severe environmental degradation or are found to be harmful to human health. 15) In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific knowledge, certainly shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effecting measures to prevent... | |
 | Günter Hoog, Angela Steinmetz - 1993 - 628 pages
...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 as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and... | |
 | ..."precautionary approach," as the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development urged in Principle 15: "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible...postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."147 Excessive Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources But today there is widespread agreement... | |
 | James Broadus, Raphael V. Vartanov, Rafaėlʹ Vramovich Vartanov - 1994 - 328 pages
...activities that may adversely affect the marine environment. As expressed in Principle 15 of UNCED, "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible...scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effect measures to prevent environmental degradation." Similarly, the requirement for... | |
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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... 
