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" In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason... "
Pesticide Risk Assessment in Rice Paddies: Theory and Practice - Page 34
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Negotiating Climate Change: The Inside Story of the Rio Convention

Irving M. Mintzer, J. Amber Leonard - 1994 - 412 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 measures to deal...
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Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of ...

Peter Read - 1994 - 324 pages
...negotiations on an FCCC to begin without delay. In relation to the uncertainties the Statement said 'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible...damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures.' - a turn of phrase which is embodied in the...
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All Our People: Population Policy with a Human Face

292 pages
..."precautionary approach," as the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development urged in Principle 15: "Where there are 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 environmental degradation."147...
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The Earth Summit, ECO 92: Different Visions

Earth Council - 1994 - 346 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by states according to their capabilities. Where there are 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 environmental degradation....
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Environmental Diplomacy : Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements ...

Lawrence E. Susskind Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies and Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program MIT - 1994 - 218 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are 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 environmental degradation."...
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Sustaining Export-Oriented Development: Ideas from East Asia

Ross Garnaut, Enzo Grilli, James Riedel - 1995 - 412 pages
...suggested by the OECD indicate the kind of thinking in its committees: • precautionary principle: 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; • priority of prevention:...
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The United Nations at Age Fifty: A Legal Perspective

Christian Tomuschat - 1995 - 360 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 . . . ." The degree to which each of these emerging principles...
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Environmental policy: from regulation to economic instruments

1995 - 146 pages
...the Ministerial Declaration of the Second World Climate Conference, footnote 11, supra, at p. 536): "Where there are 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 environmental degradation."...
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Environmental Soil Biology

M. Wood - 1995 - 164 pages
...efficiently should improve. Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development states: "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing costeffective measures to prevent environmental degradation"....
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Global Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-first Century

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel - 2006 - 264 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are 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 environmental degradation."...
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