| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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:... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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".... | |
| 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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