 | S. R. Curwell, Mark Deakin, Martin Symes - 2005 - 276 pages
...judicial and administrative proceedings, including redress and remedy shall be provided. Principle 1 5: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing... | |
 | Roda Verheyen - 2005 - 419 pages
...contends that it is on its way to becoming a rule of public international law. 128 Principle 15 reads: "In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...states according to their capabilities. Where there is threat of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as... | |
 | World Trade Organization - 2005 - 442 pages
...and Development, codified an application of this principle in its Principle l5. which stated that: "in order to protect the environment, the precautionary...shall be widely applied by States according to their capability. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty... | |
 | Gilbert M. Bankobeza - 2005 - 369 pages
...which provides that In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall widely be applied by States according to their capabilities....threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent... | |
 | Rosie Cooney, Barney Dickson - 2012 - 337 pages
...will do no harm to the environment', to 'weaker' versions such as that adopted in the Rio Declaration: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...shall be widely applied by States according to their capacities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of scientific certainty... | |
 | Paul Pechan, Gert de Vries - 2005 - 236 pages
...at the 1992 Rio Conference on the Environment and Development in Article 15 of the Rio Declaration: In order to protect the environment the precautionary...shall be widely applied by States according to their capability. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty... | |
 | Donald L. Sparks - 2005 - 424 pages
..."precautionary principle." Adapted at the sustainability conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the principle states: "In order to protect the environment,...precautionary approach shall be widely applied by the States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of irreversible damage, lack of... | |
 | Anthony Aust - 2005 - 568 pages
...(see below) were also adopted. Concepts The precautionary approach Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration states: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be applied by states according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible... | |
 | Bill Wallace - 2005 - 232 pages
...the application of the Precautionary Principle in making these determinations. The Rio Declaration states: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widel}' applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible... | |
 | Paul Mobbs - 2005 - 232 pages
...participants signed up to the Rio Declaration [UNCED, 1 992]. Principle 15 of the Declaration states that, "In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applies by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible... | |
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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... 
